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Topic: Help needed with Siemens Gigaset PC Card 108, Card not rcognized, no dev ath0/wlan0< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Feb. 08 2007,22:31 QUOTE

I ever want to get familiar with linux and so i start a hd-install (syslinux via current bootdisk) on my good old toshiba satellite pro cdt480!

The last two days I've read on several boards and learned a lot, but I can't find an answer for my problem!

The Win-Driver (net5211.inf), which came with the card told me, that it should be an Atheros-Card:
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[Version]
Signature   = "$CHICAGO$"
Class       = Net
ClassGUID   = {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Provider    = %ATHEROS%
Compatible  = 1
DriverVer   = 03/23/2005,3.3.2.15
Catalogfile = net5211.cat

[Manufacturer]
%ATHEROS%     = Atheros

...

ATHER.DeviceDesc.0013        = "Gigaset PC Card 54"
ATHER.DeviceDesc108.0013     = "Gigaset PC Card 108"
ATHER.DeviceDesc.1041        = "Gigaset PC Card 54"
SIEMENS.DeviceDesc.1041      = "Gigaset PC Card 54"


If I believe what I've read in many topcs so should this Card be supported by madwifi, which is included in dsl.

But dmesg shows following messages (with or without pci=biosirq):
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<4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:02.0.
<4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:02.1.
<4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 14:02.1.
<4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 14:02.1.
<4> wifi %d: request_irq failed


iwconfig shows only:
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lo       no wireless extensions


lspci -vv:
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0000:14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 02fa:3070
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParrErr- DEVSEL=medium > TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64k]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-


My first trials with ndiswrapper (because siemens gigaset pc card 108 is not listet in "Verified Wireless Cards")
didn't really work too, even if "ndiswrapper -l" told me:
"driver installed, hardware present"! After "modporbe ndiswrapper" the power led went from blinking to lit constantly. But no device wlan0 was found!!!

May be the same reason in both cases i think, but what can Ido? I would be glad if someone give me a solution for the problem!

Many thanks in advance!
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Posted: Feb. 11 2007,16:35 QUOTE

In meantime I've found this on (madwifi http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility#GigasetPCCard108)
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Gigaset PC Card 108 ¶
Chipset: AR5212(a/b/g)  
URL: http://gigaset.siemens.com/shc/0,1935,de_de_0_24400_rArNrNrNrN_prodId:88571,00.html  
Interface: Cardbus Card  
Antenna Connector: Unknown  
Device Information: Unknown  
Notes: Working fine with Debian Etch rc1, kernel 2.6.18-3-686, madwifi 0.9.2.1 built from source  


But can tihs help me?
If the card works fine with this kernel would it work with dsl too? How can I proof the version of wifi used in may dsl-installation? May I have to update wifi? If yes, how?
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