Linksys WPC11/ Toshiba Protege 650ct Issue
Forum: Laptops
Topic: Linksys WPC11/ Toshiba Protege 650ct Issue
started by: mnmjr1981
Posted by mnmjr1981 on July 20 2006,06:54
I have been at this for about three days straight. I have installed and reinstalled to my HDD, but to no avail. So the problem is that even using NDISWRAPPER, I am unable to use my Linksys WPC11 card. I don't see anything in Card manager from the panel. I have a disk with the windows driver and another disk with the massive Linux driver. I do not know how I would go about loading the Linux driver. I need a little more explanation this is my first Linux use.
Posted by Nym1 on July 20 2006,17:57
Hello,Forum members will be more able to help you if you provide the following information:
1. What version of the WPC11 card do you have?
2. What version of DSL are you running?
3. If you type "lspci" in Aterm, what is the output?
Posted by mnmjr1981 on July 21 2006,06:30
1. What version of the WPC11 card do you have? version 42. What version of DSL are you running? 3.0.1
3. If you type "lspci" in Aterm, what is the output?
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge; Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge (rev 11)
0000:00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65550 (rev05)
Posted by mnmjr1981 on July 22 2006,02:02
Is there anyway to make sure the cardbus is working, without getting the driver installed?
Posted by mnmjr1981 on July 22 2006,14:23
Okay I messed with BIOS settings, and now the card is showing up in LSPCI. However when I attempt to do the NDISWrapper, my system freezes completely. Any suggestions?
Posted by mnmjr1981 on July 23 2006,00:31
I tried using a Zydan usb adapter as well, and I get the same system freeze when I try to connect. Any suggestions?
Posted by evilbstrd666 on Aug. 06 2006,02:03
How long did you wait?Sometimes, with my WPC54G, I have to wait a minute or two for it to connect.... works great once it does, and I am using NDISWrapper with the Linksys Windows driver.
Only other thing I can think of is to make sure you are using the latest driver.
Posted by evilbstrd666 on Aug. 06 2006,02:14
Sorry, didn't see the last post. Not sure what else to try.
Posted by Pete051 on Aug. 18 2006,18:45
I've same problem with a NetVision cardbus, the thing lights up when ndisweapper but the laptop locks up bit counter productive 
Toshiba portege 3480 CT here
Posted by newOldUser on Aug. 20 2006,17:34
I'm not sure if this will help or not....First have you seen my post at: < http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/256 >
Second, I'm currently on a Toshiba satellite 2805-s202 using a linksys wpc11 version 4. when I do a lspci this is what I get
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
0000:00:08.1 Serial controller: Xircom Mini-PCI K56Flex Modem
0000:00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 20)
0000:00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 20)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller]
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
0000:15:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20)
I have a frugal install with perm home and opt directories so my boot parms will be different then yours but mine are:
root=/dev/hda5
vga=normal
quiet
pci=noacpi
apm
frugal
dma
toram
mydsl=hda6
restore=hda5
home=hda5
opt=hda5
I'm running 2.3 of DSL on this machine.
I'd suggest you try running from the liveCD and see if you can get it working from that first.