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The eee boots DSL 4.0 from a USB stick into RAM nicely but the wifi card is not recognised :(. Drivers for Windows are available and so ndiswrapper could be used but the first hurdle is to get the card recognised.

Can anyone help please.
Try lspci
On DSL look at

Possible irq conflict with usb and wireless?

dmesg | grep -i irq
cat /proc/interrupts

lsmod | grep ath
lsmod | grep wlan

Then compare to that on eee
When eee boots up to easymode, press Ctrl-Alt-t
That should open a terminal, then sudo su

Type same commands and compare, maybe a different address is used or irq
lspci in DSL gives:

Code Sample
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2590 (rev 04)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2592 (rev 04)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2792 (rev 04)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub Audio (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 0 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub USB (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub USB (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub USB (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub USB (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub USB2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub LPC (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2653 (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. I/O Controller Hub SMBus (rev 04)
0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 001c (rev 01)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 1969:2048 (rev a0)


lspci in Xandros gives:

Quote

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5007EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter (rev a0)


How do you read this?
That the wireless is an Atheros AR5007EG. Now check the modules, like Robert said
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