muskrat
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Posted: Feb. 02 2006,22:27 |
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I was very hopefull when I seen several SMC cards listed on the WiKi page. Even more hopefull when I saw DSL installs by default with Prism2 support. Because the sales rep for Flying J said this card worked with Linux drivers and the prism2 chipset.
But it doesn't, After some research I find myself digging into a mountain of info I don't understand. Bare in mind I'm not linux ignorant, but I haven't any experiance with Dniswrappers, not even sure what they/it is.
Anyway, I have a SMC 2.4Ghz 802.11b Wireless network PCMCIA card.
Number = SMC2532W-B.
I have DSL 2.0 with a HD install, on a AMD K6 II Laptop
I found this posting on another site when I Googled this number M4Y-X1330HP;
| Quote | A warning to all those buying the SMC2532W-B card is that apparently, SMC has changed the shipset of the card recently, without changing the model number. The design on the front of the card is different and the only way to tell the difference is a slight difference on the information on the BACK of the card. The FCCID is M4Y-X1330HP whereas the older card is something different. Also the IC ID has a "V2" at the end and I blieve the Part Number is slightly different. If you buy this card online make SURE to either see the design on the front or the information on the back of the card or else you will be surprised when you see...
pccard0: <unknown card> (manufacturer=0xd601, product=0x0010) at function 0
pccard0: CIS info: SMC, SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter, |
I get that exact same error when I boot, but I'm not sure how to proceed.
The following post from that site is;
| Quote | The new version uses an Intersil Prism 3 chipset, both versions of the SMC2532W-B are
re-branded Zcom XI-330HP (Prism 3) and XI-325HP (Prism 2.5) cards! An entry for this
card has been commited to HEAD and will be MFC'd to FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.x
Chipset: Intersil Prism 3
Bus: 16-bit PCMCIA, Type II
Antenna: Detachable microstrip, 2 RP-MMCX Connectors*, RX diversity
Power Consumption; TX: 600mA, RX: 350mA
Voltage: 5V
RF output: 23dBm ~ 23.5dBm
Sensitivity:
11Mbps @ -83dBm
5.5Mbps @ -86dBm
2Mbps @ -87dBm
1Mbps @ -91dBm
The vendor id matches ELSA (0xd601) so add an entry to the ELSA products section,
/sys/dev/pccard/pccarddevs:
"product ELSA XI330_IEEE 0x0010 XI330 Wireless LAN"
added to /sys/dev/wi/if_wi_pccard.c:
"PCMCIA_CARD(ELSA, XI330_IEEE),"
add to /etc/pccard.conf:
# SMC's SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter
card "SMC" "SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter"
config auto "wi" ?
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
now rebuild the kernel
Card 1, default firmware shown:
wi0: <SMC SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter> at port
0xd000-0xd07f irq 18 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.1), Station (1.8.2)
wi0: Ethernet address: 00:04:e2:81:e6:43
Card 2, downgraded firmware to work in AP mode with a PCI bridge
controller.
wi0: <SMC SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter> at port
0xd000-0xd07f irq 18 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9)
wi0: Ethernet address: 00:04:e2:81:e1:06
Prism firmware and a how-to guide are available here:
]http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ |
Leading me even futher down a road I don't understand.
for example (The new version uses an Intersil Prism 3 chipset, both versions of the SMC2532W-B are
re-branded Zcom XI-330HP (Prism 3) and XI-325HP (Prism 2.5) cards) It sayes these cards are rebranded, mine isn't! It also sayes they use prism3, which I take to mean DSL doesn't support right out of the box.
Then it sayes rebuild the Kernel, I'll be totally honest here I have yet to build a kernel and have it be better than the one I had to start with. I've recomplied kernels, and can often get the function I'm wanting, But somehow I seem to lose a lot of other functions that I had, which of course is very undisireable.
I was over at DnisWrappers site and saw this;| Quote | Important: Do NOT use drivers on your CD. They may work, but you may experience kernel crashes etc., if the driver on your CD has not been tested.
Instead, you need to download appropriate Windows XP driver for your card from the Wiki entry List. To identify the driver that you need, first identify the card you have with 'lspci' and note the first column such as 0000:00:0c.0 and then find out the PCI ID of the card that with 'lspci -n' corresponding to the first column of 'lspci' output. |
too late, I had already tried and installed my CD drivers, with no luck. So just for kicks I run the 'lspci' but didn't even see my SMC card there, no listing ':0c.0' there's several listing there but I can account for everything there as being part of the laptop base system.
There is one tiny bit of hope still, the light does come on on the card, so I know linux/bios is powering up the card.
Can anybody help me make plain PC repairmans trems of some of the Geck talk above, or point me to a good tutoial on Dniswrappers for dumbies!
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