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Topic: WPC11 wireless help needed, I've a solution but DSL is road blocking

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roberts

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Posted: July 02 2007,23:20

If it is a prism2 don't use ndiswarpper, try the Prism2 GUI.
According to the Wiki that is the one to use. Use ndiswrapper only if it is a v4 (realtek)

zramiam

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Posted: July 03 2007,14:48

oK, I've gone ahead and done a new frugal grub install onto the HD with dsl 3.4, fun! Thinking this would clean out any settings I set up that are just wrong and could be buggering things up. (tell me if my thinking is wrong)

Now, I've gone to the DSLpanel, PCMCIA Tool >

ident:

socket 0:
no product info available (right nothing plugged in here)

socket 1:
product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.","Instant Wireless Network PC Card","ISL37300P","Rev A",
manfid: 0x0274,0x1613
function: 6 (network)

Info:

PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1="The Linksys Group, Inc"
PRODID_2="Instant Wireless Network PC Card"
PRODID_3="ISL37300P"
PRODID_4="RevA"
MANFID=0274,1613
FUNCID=6

I think that looks right? maybe... Anyway I tried using the prism2 GUI, but it just returned "connection failed", I did vi /opt/myprism2.sh to see what was in the file:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/prism2.sh wlan0 6 <myssid> <wepcode> 2>&1 >/dev/null

? hopefully this info will help...
I have the laptop with me at work, so a wireless connection is not actually available, but I can try more system checks/tweeks today during work BREAKS times... ya that's it.

Thanks for all the help so far

jpeters

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Posted: July 05 2007,23:41

For the WPC11 ver3, use ndiswrapper, using the windows drivers (bcmw15.sys, bcmw15.inf) and setting the path. That will do it.

note: If you incorrectly installed it previously, first:

rmmod ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -e netcard

Then you can start from scratch....

Also, after installing, you may need:
"sudo pump -i eth0"

(check "ifconfig" to make sure signal is on eth0)

zramiam

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Posted: July 12 2007,19:49

Oh, man! no love from my wireless....

I tried both methods; I even found a post from someone with the same laptop, they switched the bios from pcmcia to card bus to get theirs working. mine was set on auto-detect. I'll try it set to pcmcia tonight and let you know if that does the trick.

zramiam

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Posted: July 13 2007,14:57

Well, nothing seems to work.

I try prism2 = connection failed

I switched the bios from pcthing to cardbus to autodetect... no change.

When I boot I get the the list of pcmcia cardmgr starts up, with hermes, orinoco, orinoco_cs, eth0 set up then when the ifup eth0 comes up I get an error "ignoring unknown device" (or something similar to that)

I think that is where the problem is but I don't know what to do to fix it.

Is there a manual method of checking/setting up eth0 so that it is recognized?

what other commands can I use to try and sort this out, so far I've learned:

ifconfig
ifconfig -a
ifconfig eth0 up

iwconfig

cardctl ident

pump
pump -i eth0
both of which fail...

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