Need help with SMC 2632W v2 configuationForum: Networking Topic: Need help with SMC 2632W v2 configuation started by: rothmail Posted by rothmail on Dec. 17 2005,20:05
I'm new to DSL. I have an old Compaq 1270 which I want to use with DSL. I have DSL 2.0 on CD-ROM and it boots fine and managed to get it installed to boot from hard disk too. I got the SMC 2632W v2 EZ Connect™ wireless card since it is listed as "working out of the box" with DSL. How do I configure this to work? I am using a Linksys WRT54G which supports WEP and enable/disabling of SSID. Is there a way in DSL to search for networks like the utility from Linksys does on Windows?When it boots up, both lights come on the SMC 2632W v2 when the card manager acknowleges the card. I tried the control panel options in DSL panel but it gives the message there is no wireless card. I would greatly appreciate help with this. Thanks in advance! Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 19 2005,06:37
Supposedly the version 1 of this card works via the PRISM2 chipset, so it probably works out-of-the-box.Version 2, not so good. See this for more details: < http://www.chip.org/~alb/SMC2632Wv2.html > Posted by rothmail on Dec. 19 2005,07:17
Thanks for your reply. Version 2 is listed on this forum as working out of the box. This is a shame, I got this card because it was on the working out of the box list. I guess with the effort on that web page, it can be made to work, so it sounds much more involved than just plugging it in and changing the settings. I don't see a C compiler on DSL 2.0, so compiling any drivers is going to take some effort. Cross-compiler? Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 19 2005,17:08
If you type:ifconfig -a what do you get for interfaces? Posted by rothmail on Dec. 19 2005,17:51
ifconfig -a with the SMC card installed in the PCMCIA outputs this: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Also, in /etc the 'netcard' file contains: FULLNAME="SMC 2632W-V2" DRIVER="unknown" Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 19 2005,23:02
I was kinda hoping that if the lights came on that a driver was loaded, but it does not look to be true.I guess you could try the hard drive install, then download kernel headers and development extensions (gcc1.dsl etc) and then try and compile the driver yourself like that other guy did. Posted by roberts on Dec. 20 2005,19:07
If you would post the output oflspci | grep Ethernet and then the output of lspci -vn It could very well be easy to use ndiswrapper to make this card work. Won't know until we get more info. Posted by rothmail on Dec. 20 2005,22:30
Here is the first output requested, but no Ethernet string is present: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1541 (rev 04) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M1541 PCI to AGP Controller (rev 04) 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev 0a) 0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 02) 0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211 0000:00:0f.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01) 0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev 20) 0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU (rev 09) 0000:00:14.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 (rev dc) Here is the second with the -vn option: 0000:00:00.0 0600: 10b9:1541 (rev 04) Subsystem: 10b9:1541 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:01.0 0604: 10b9:5243 (rev 04) Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 99 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=99 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff Memory behind bridge: fd000000-fecfffff 0000:00:07.0 0601: 10b9:1533 (rev 0a) Subsystem: 10b9:1533 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 0000:00:09.0 0401: 125d:1969 (rev 02) Subsystem: 125d:8898 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at fcc0 [size=64] I/O ports at fca0 [size=16] I/O ports at fcb0 [size=16] I/O ports at fc88 [size=4] I/O ports at fc8c [size=4] Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:0a.0 0607: 104c:ac1e Subsystem: 0e11:b103 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10 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 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:00:0f.0 0780: 11c1:0441 (rev 01) Subsystem: 144f:0441 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 Memory at fedffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] I/O ports at fc78 [size=8] I/O ports at f800 [size=256] Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:10.0 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev 20) (prog-if fa) Subsystem: 10b9:5229 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at fc90 [size=16] 0000:00:11.0 0680: 10b9:7101 (rev 09) Subsystem: 10b9:1533 Flags: medium devsel 0000:00:14.0 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03) (prog-if 10) Subsystem: 10b9:5237 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at fedfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4c42 (rev dc) Subsystem: 0e11:b11b Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9 Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Memory at fecff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> I tried using ndiswrapper on the .INF that is used for Windows 98 provided on the CD-ROM from SMC for this card, and it says its an invalid driver. Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 21 2005,05:04
How about:sudo cardctrl ident Posted by rothmail on Dec. 21 2005,06:05
sudo cardctl ident output is: Socket 0: product info: "SMC", "2632W-V2" manfid: 0x01bf, 0xb301 function: 6 (network) |