Damn Small Linux - Not!

ZoOp · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

hi all,
it doesn't, however it does with Knoppix 3.9 and 4.02.
yours
z

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

NMI would be helpful.
What module is 3.9 and/or 4.0.2 loading?

markdsl · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

I finally got this running under RC3, as these cards are all 3890 based
The trick is to download some windows drivers for your card
eg (WATCH OUT THESE ARE FOR V0.2 CHIPSET NOT V0.1) or use your own XP drivers
then unzip them to somewhere (eg /mnt/hda5/driver)

Check the card is up in the PCMCIA TOOL (shows Intersil 3890)

Then this little lot into Aterminal with the card in place

sudo su
depmod -a (See another thread for this)
rmmod prism54 (Maybe a better prism 54 build would start the card, but not in DSL-n)
rmmod ndiswrapper (Seems silly, but it works)
ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda5/driver/2802w.inf (if thats the files you got)
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper (If you don't get a flash from the light on your card HERE you are wasting your time with the rest of this... you need that flash of light) - look at the drivers again (eg V1 or V2)

iwconfig wlan0 essid JAFFA2 key 1122-3344-55 (MY NETWORK IS JAFFA2 - my key is not 1122-334455!)
pump -i wlan0

AND NOW IT WORKS..... but I don't know why!
and can't get it to run properly in xinitrc (probably lots of other stuff going on that is interfering that I don't understand)

Hope this helps someone.

ZoOp · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks Mark!
my problem is actually another one: I used this cardbus with knoppix 3.9 and 4.02 without one problem; if dsl-n works with the kernel of the knoppix 4.02, why doesn't it read my card. I will do the check for you soon, Robert, and report results back.
yours
z

ZoOp · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

sorry for delay robert,

here the results of lspci -vv for the cardbus, ethernet controller and pcmcia with Knoppix 4.02 in LiveCD mode:

0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80f6
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SER
R- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort
- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 0x20 (128 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80f6
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SER
R- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort
- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 0x20 (128 bytes)
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (
rev 10)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80f6
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SER
R- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort
- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 128 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at e8004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Du ette] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4800
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SER R- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort - >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 80 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

and here my /proc/interrupts/

CPU0
0: 1393394 XT-PIC timer
1: 960 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 81 XT-PIC via82cxxx
7: 1 XT-PIC parport0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 2433 XT-PIC acpi, uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, ohci1394, yenta, eth0
10: 2 XT-PIC yenta
12: 77441 XT-PIC i8042
14: 178 XT-PIC ide0
15: 4558 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

Thanks a lot for helping me!!

yours
z

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

I would also like to see the output of [b]lsmod[/b]

ZoOp · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

here it is:

Module Size Used by
snd_mixer_oss 18304 0
snd 46820 1 snd_mixer_oss
sis_agp 9988 0
intel_agp 22300 0
efficeon_agp 10144 0
amd_k7_agp 10380 0
ali_agp 9216 0
autofs4 19076 1
af_packet 24328 0
via82cxxx_audio 27656 1
uart401 13124 1 via82cxxx_audio
sound 71684 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
soundcore 11104 4 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound
ac97_codec 20236 1 via82cxxx_audio
8139too 25600 0
mii 8320 1 8139too
via_agp 11392 1
agpgart 31440 6 sis_agp,intel_agp,efficeon_agp,amd_k7_agp,ali_agp,via_agp
i2c_viapro 10512 0
i2c_core 20992 1 i2c_viapro
parport_pc 38724 0
parport 33480 1 parport_pc
8250 42844 0
serial_core 21120 1 8250
usbhid 42464 0
prism54 51592 0
firmware_class 11392 1 prism54
pcmcia 23696 4
yenta_socket 22152 3
rsrc_nonstatic 14080 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 43268 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
video 18308 0
thermal 14984 0
processor 24520 1 thermal
fan 7300 0
container 7296 0
button 9104 0
battery 12420 0
ac 7556 0
rtc 13900 0
unionfs 68088 1
cloop 19232 1
sbp2 24584 0
ohci1394 33460 0
ieee1394 297432 2 sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage 68544 0
ohci_hcd 21764 0
uhci_hcd 31632 0
usbcore 102492 5 usbhid,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd

yours
z

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

Are you saying that full KNOPPIX 3.9 & 4.0.2 load prism54 module and it works. But DSL-N does not even load the prism54 module?
What happens when you manually load prism54?
What then does iwconfig show?

Perhaps as the other poster mentioned that he could not get prism54 to handle the card correctly and had to resort to ndiswrapper.

ZoOp · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

iwconfig gives: eth0 NOT READY! and the usual parameters.
prism54 is loaded, however (lsmod shows it).
When I configure eth0, the procedure fails with a message saying that the directory (?) doesn't exist.
yours
z

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

Without me having this card it is very difficult to debug. So my questons continue...
So the iwconfig shows an eth0 and its mac address but just not configured? What is the output of iwconfig?
What is the exact error message, so that if a directory is missing, I may restore it.

ZoOp · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

so:

iwconfig not configured gives:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200
Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions

Now, I am configuring wlan and netcard:

DSLpanel-->Wlcardconfig-->eth0 Netzwerkkarte_0
Geben Sie die ESSID: ***
(then five hits until I come in 'Geben Sie den Verschlüssungskey', e.g. the encryption key in hexadecimal): ***
Netcardconfig --> eth0 Netzwerkkarte_0
DHCP Broadcast zur Konfiguration benutzen? YES
Sende DHCP Broadcast von Netzwerkkarte eth0SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Operation failed
Fehlgeschlagen.
Eingabetaste zum Beenden (enter)

Now, iwconfig after the configuration process

eth0 NOT READY! ESSID:"***" (<-- Name of my network)
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200
Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

yours
z