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Topic: Wireless card no longer works in 2.0, Lost wireless network capability in 2.0

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dtf

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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,16:03

Thanks for the offer. I would really like to pursue this in the interest of helping resolve issues and increasing my understanding but I am giving this ebay special laptop as a gift to my son so I going to put this on the back burner for awhile. I really like what DSL can do on older platforms with little memory. Also I think this is a great introduction to LINUX and not as complicated as larger distributions. Anyway enjoy your holiday and keep up the good work. Guess I change the topic again

msuho

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,16:05

Exactly one year ago today I posted this on the working wireless thread:

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LInksys WUSB11 Ver 2.5 Works

Prism2 Chipset

edit /etc/modutils/linux-wlan-ng - change "prism2_pci" to "prism2_usb" in alias

modprobe prism2_usb
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=<your APs SSID> authtype=opensystem
ifconfig wlan0 <yourIP> netmask <yourNetmask> broadcast <yourBroadcast>
route add default gw <yourGateway>

Well, I upgraded to 2.0, and this network card no longer works. I gather from the prceding discussion that perhaps my card's support has been deprecated. I guess I can try the ndiswrapper route.

Mark

roberts

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,18:23

Stating that something works 1.5 and not 2.0 is really helpful.
The prism2 modules are in included with 2.0 and work fine with my prism2 netgear device.

/lib/modules/2.4.31/linux-wlan-ng/prism2_cs.o
/lib/modules/2.4.31/linux-wlan-ng/prism2_pci.o
/lib/modules/2.4.31/linux-wlan-ng/prism2_plx.o
/lib/modules/2.4.31/linux-wlan-ng/prism2_usb.o

If you are getting an error and even the output from running the following might be helpful...

# sh -x /usr/local/bin/prism2.sh wlan0 your_channel_nbr your_ssid

msuho

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Posted: Dec. 24 2005,15:46

OK, pilot error on my part-

I messed around with the prism2.sh script, and lo, I was using the wrong ssid
(I recently chnaged my router config). I'm typing this on my DSL 2.0 box,
so I'm back in business.

Thanks,

Mark