pcmcia problem (I think)

Forum: Networking
Topic: pcmcia problem (I think)
started by: mayorcurley

Posted by mayorcurley on Feb. 03 2005,21:23

I have DSL .9 installed on my Dell Inspiron 3200 (233/32 megs ram)
and I love it. I couldn't get 1.0 to boot properly, but that's not why I'm posting.

I can't get DSL to regocnize my PCI card. It's a Linksys WPC54g and I was looking forward to using it under ndiswrapper. But the port (and not just the card) won't seem to recognize. Any ideas?

Posted by mayorcurley on Feb. 03 2005,21:42

I just tried it once again and here's the message I got from dmesg:

__alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed (gfp=0x21/0)
ndiswrapper (NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:997): Failed to allocate DMA coherent mem
ory. Windows driver requested 131072 bytes of uncached memory

ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1458): Windows driver couldn't initialize the dev
ice

Posted by msuho on Feb. 04 2005,03:46

You didn't say what version of the card you use. Here are the entries
for it from the sourceforge.net ndiswrapper wiki-

Card: Linksys WPC54G, 54mbps -- link here
Chipset: Broadcom BCM94306
pciid: 14E4:4320

Driver (Dell): < http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R76521na.EXE > (use the file that ends in "j" if you live in Japan or "rw" for anywhere else)
Other: Works with WEP and WPA with either CCMP/AES or TKIP ciphers. Scott says: Unzip the EXE file, and use the driver in the AR directory. Random cases of not being able to probe the IRQ, see the card, connect, etc. may be fixed by adding "acpi=noirq" to kernel params. This card works great on Gentoo 2004.2 with a 2.6.9 kernel and ndiswrapper 0.11. Card also works fine with SuSE 9.1 pro and ndiswrapper 0.12.

Driver (Linksys): < ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wpc54g_driver_utility_v1.3.zip >
Other: Works without using any encryption. Still trying to get it to work with WPA/TKIP.
# Card: Linksys WPC54G v2, 54Mbps -- link here
Chipset: Texas Instruments ACX 111
pciid: 104c:9066
Driver: Linksys < ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wpc54gv2_driver_utility_v2.02.zip >
Other: linux-2.6.8-gentoo kernel, ndiswrapper 0.10.Kept having kernel panic (interrupt-related) upon module load until I set CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y (and unset CONFIG_4KSTACKS, just in case.) Also, used "ndiswrapper -i LSTINDS.INF" (NOT lsbcmnds.inf). Works with 64 and 128-bit WEP. Sometimes need to repeat config info (and commit) repeatedly, else driver & card will ignore requested setup. Also works with Gentoo 2.6.9-r9, ndiswrapper 0.12 and drivers that came from CD.
# Card: Linksys WPC54G v4, 54mbps -- link here
Chipset: AirConn? IPROCOMM IPN 2220 (rev 01)
pciid: 17fe:2220
Driver: Linksys < ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub....004.zip >
Other: Gentoo 2.6.7-ck6, Ndiswrapper 0.9 Manual compile (not ebuild). Have not tested the capabilities, but works. Will not work with 128-bit WEP key-- cannot turn encryption on (Fedora core-2, Kernel 2.6.5).