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Topic: ATMEL wireless pcmf502rd driver no longer n distro, Driver was present in earlier distros

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Posted: June 12 2005,12:12

damianiw and Kevin,
You need Knoppix 3.4 installed to hard drive.
Kevin, you're right, when the configuration asks for "root dir of external pcmcia:" the correct answer is /usr/src/linux-2.4.26 - this is the Knoppix kernel source - but it's missing. You need to get it separately from http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix/i386/
I already have Knoppix3.4+kernel source installed, so I tried it just now, with the latest atmelwlandriver source - 3.4.1.0. I got many errors - I think the usb versions and utilities failed, but the pcmcia drivers compiled OK. The compilation also produced an updated configuration file - /etc/pcmcia/atmel.conf
So here's what I have, they're each about 110KB -

pcmf502r (rfmd)
pcmf502rd (rfmd revision d)
pcmf502re (rfmd revision e)
pcmf502r3 (3COM)
pcmf504
pcmf504_2958
pcmf504A_2958

If you want to avoid this process yourselves, email me and tell me which version you want.
Craig S

damianiw

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Posted: July 19 2005,21:19

This isn't as easy as it first seemed, apparantly the xjack version of the card is a different one ! Guess which one I have !!

Thanks to the help of someone here I got the driver to install but my card isn't recognised - so back to google....

I found this site: Site

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=208340

Which mentions a hacked driver to support the xjack, unfortunately the link to it is dead but I found it elsewhere:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvermeul/swallow/

or link to driver I'm trying:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvermeul/swallow/poldhu-0.2.13.tar.gz

and the author has implemented support for the xjack an 128bit WEP under kernel 2.4+ (so if my now ever increasing linux skills are correct) it should compile for DSL !

I tried with my freshly installed hd install but failed, I did download and add the GNU-Utils, Kernel Source, and GCC for DSL, i worked out i had to edit the config.mk inside the package and point it to my kernel src, which I hoped would be the last step...

however I now get the following error when trying make all or indeed make install:

Code Sample

set -e; for d in clients config ; do make -C $d; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/poldhu/clients'
cc -D -MD -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D -D -DMODULE -I/usr/src/linux/include -Imake config/include -I/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/mach-generic -c poldhu.c
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/poldhu/clients'
make[1]: cc : Command not found

now trying my friend google again this seems to say I need GCC (which I have) and libc6-dev

?

I'm way out of my depth but still determined to work out how to get my card to work as I like it !

I'd love to be able to return something to the community here - a DSL for this to save others the hideous process

damianiw

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Posted: July 19 2005,22:30

Still thinking on this, I now understand that I'll need to get knoppix 3.4 and try compiling with that, any mirrors anywhere ? I found a japanese version but that's no use to me !!

however I've also noticed that the atmel drivers I was given have no listing in the modules.pcimap so maybe the driver would work if I hack about with the modules.pcimap !

pinguino

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Posted: Oct. 05 2005,07:49

Hi guys

my Belkin F5D6020 ver 2 worked out of the box for DSL 0.6.
I am having trouble with DSL 1.5.
1) do you have a link for knoppix 3.4?
2) I have tryed to recompile the atmel driver within dsl 1.5. Downloaded gcc (version for 0.8) and the kernel source (on /tmp) but was unable to compile successfully according to

http://www.houseofcraig.net/atmel_guide.php

failing on ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/Makefile

3) if it is just a question of having pcmf502re.o compiled with kernel 2.4.26 in the pcmcia directory and someone has done that could you kindly send it too me.

Many thanks

Pinguino

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Posted: Oct. 05 2005,09:12

I compiled the atmelwlan drivers and made a mydsl package, which you can download here -
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....ers.dsl

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