stormy
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Joined: Nov. 2005 |
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Posted: Nov. 30 2005,05:17 |
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First off I have just done a fresh install of dsl 1.2.1.
Secondly the leds on the card light up (and stay lit afterwards) during the auto-detection phase of bootup. But there is no wlan0 or ath0, only lo.
I read on another dwl-g630 related post that the mad-wifi drivers were built into linux - ath_pci. Also this is the C2 dwl-g630.
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root@box:/home/dsl# modprobe -v ath_pci
/sbin/insmod -q /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_hal.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_hal.o
Symbol version prefix 'smp_'
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_hal.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module ath_hal loaded, with warnings
/sbin/insmod -q /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/wlan.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/wlan.o
Module wlan loaded, with warnings
/sbin/insmod -q /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_pci.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_pci.o
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
# delete wlan
# delete ath_hal
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I did an lsmod just in case, but to no avail. Both wlan and ath_hal modules load with ease though.
So with my led lights still blinking I decided to use ndiswrapper. I've used it once before on a USRobotics card and it worked very well. I've also seen many post about it working with this particular card.
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root@box:/home/dsl/Drivers/Drivers# ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf
Installing net5211
root@box:/home/dsl/Drivers/Drivers#
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Then:
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root@box:/home/dsl/Drivers/Drivers# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
net5211 hardware present
root@box:/home/dsl/Drivers/Drivers#
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I then did a modprobe ndiswrapper.
No errors, so I did an ifconfig. Still no wireless iface. Just lonely old 'lo'.
But wait, let's check dmesg:
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root@box:/home/dsl/Drivers/Drivers# dmesg | tail -n 15
ath_hal: driver unloaded
ath_hal: 0.9.6.11
wlan: 0.7.3.1 BETA
ath_pci: 0.8.5.2 BETA
ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
wlan: driver unloaded
ath_hal: driver unloaded
ndiswrapper version 0.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 05:00.0 to 64
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x21/0)
ndiswrapper (NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:997): Failed to allocate DMA coherent memory. Windows driver requested 4096 bytes of cached memory
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:196): log: C000009A, length: 4 (c1c73160)
ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1458): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device
root@box:/home/dsl/Drivers/Drivers#
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Honestly I'm lost. Any help you can provide would be great. I really need my wifi
:<
-Thanks in advance
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