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Topic: Wireless card not working, That old chestnut again

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andy_g_gray Offline

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,22:25

Hi,

I know this question is very similar to others that have been posted, but I've not come across an answer yet.

I've got a Buffalo Technology WLI-CB-G54L PCMCIA card, and I can't get it to work. It just doesn't seem to be recognised by the system at all - the lights don't come on, and typing cardctl info produces this output:

PRODID _1=""
PRODID _2=""
PRODID _3=""
PRODID _4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255

twice over, which I'm interpreting as meaning there are no cards plugged in, since when I plug in a Xircom modem card its details come up OK.

I've tried using Ndiswrapper to install the windows driver, and it seems to work, but tells me that there is "No Hardware"
Similarly running Wlanconfig produces a message "No wireless network card found"

This is very disappointing as I was hoping to use DSL to resurrect my ancient Toshiba laptop (a satellite 300cds) to use as a mobile web browser, and it was looking very promising up to this point.

Is there something I have to do to switch the card on somehow? Or does this card just not work with DSL?

All advice would be deeply appreciated.

Andrew Gray

filthyskillet Offline

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Posted: Mar. 12 2005,00:13

Found this GOOGLEing

http://www.buffalotech.com/downloads/CBG54L.zip

b>Card: Buffalo AirStation g54 (WLI-CB-G54L)
 Chipset: Texas Instruments ACX 111
 pciid: ??
 Driver: Works with drivers in the CBG54L/WinXP directory on the 3.70.3 Buffalo CD.
 Other: Tested on Whitebox Enterprise Linux 3 with stock 2.6.5 kernel and ndiswrapper 0.11
 
 26Jan05:: Also Tested on Ubunta Linux 5 (Debian Based)
 Kernal Version: 2.6.8.1-3-386
 Ndiswrapper Version: 0.12
 WinXp Driver Downloaded from Buffalo website
 I would be glad to help if you are using the same card and need support
 calvin@jinux Dot no-ip Dot org (plz convert the Dot to ".")
 
 16 Feb 05: The driver link on the Buffalo website is here: http://www.buffalotech.com/downloads/CBG54L.zip
Good luck.

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andy_g_gray Offline

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Posted: Mar. 13 2005,19:15

Thanks, I've got the card working now - the problem had nothing to do with linux - I needed to change the BIOS settings of the machine, as it had been set only to work with 16-bit cards.

I've run wlanconfig, and entered the network details.

However I'm still not on the network - when I run networkconfig, it asks if I want to use DHCP broadcast, to which I reply yes, since that's what the router uses, but I just get back the message "Operation failed".

Is there some step I have missed out?

AG

filthyskillet Offline

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Posted: Mar. 13 2005,20:19

Try ifconfig wlan0
ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
I found the one card I use kept gettig the wrong mask 255.255.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0
there is probably a type error on your part as was my case
Check all settings
Do you have connection on other machine Some routers need reset when you play with wireless they like to lockup!

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U can't handle the truth!!!!
COL. Nathan R. Jessup , Commanding Officer Guantanamo Bay Cuba
ARE WE CLEAR?