Ok I am in slack I made the driver know what where do i put it? it is just sitting there looking at me.

Did you do a make install? It should put the driver in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/net/wireless. Once it is in there you should be able to type modprobe <drivername> and it'll load. Then when you type dmesg it should show something at the end of it that shows your driver loading and detecting the hardware.

Next step is configuring it for your network.

The readme says to ismod so i did and this is what i got.

bash-2.05b# insmod 8211.o
Warning: loading 8211.o will taint the kernel: no license
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
tainted modules
8211.o: init_module: No such device
8211.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

ok jtshaw trying that now

it say:

Modprobe: Can't locate module 8211.o

When using modprobe, simply use the module name without the .o extension. It assumes a location within /lib/modules/<kernel version>/

With insmod, you use the full module name, path included if not in the directory with it.

Now, you'll also want to make sure cardmgr is running and pcmcia services are running at boot -- you should see a listing for your card by using the command lspci

-Shade

this is what i get

bash-2.05b# cardctl insert
bash-2.05b# modprobe 8211
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/8211.o will taint
the kernel: no license
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
tainted modules
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/8211.o: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/8211.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
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/8211.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/8211.o failed
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8211.o
will taint the kernel: no license
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8211.o: init_module: No
such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8211.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
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8211.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8211.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8211.o: insmod 8211 failed
bash-2.05b#
cd

After modprobe fails, what are the last few lines of

dmesg


--Shade

Hi there,

I too was in a similer position to you, i was sick of not being able to configure linux, coudnt find drivers for my new hardware etc, etc

Then i had a little accident!

i was fooling around with a live cd, to see if i could pick up some config file info, and i clicked on mozzilla and the homepage came up! at last my modem worked (im on telewest broadband, in the uk)

i did some more fooling around and decided to try one last time, so i went to get a help file off my windoze partition but i got something like "winloader.exe not found, restarting"
I tried to reinstall windows but micro$oft wanted me to pay for another liscence!!!!!!!!!!!

so copied all my files to a backup, did a clean wipe and install of slackware 9.0, a lot of reading and i was happy i had linux working, and i didnt have to keep switching between windoze/slack just to go on the net.

that was six months ago, im currently writing this on a P1 166mhz with 32mb of ram, no hard drive, a network card i pulled from a 486 (its isa!) and its plugged into my modem oh yeah, and the PHLAK live cd in a 12x cdrom with NO effort (do that in windoze xp)

I know i might not be any help, but please dont give up. It will be worth it in the end!

bash-2.05b# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2.3) #6 Tue Sep 2
17:43:01 PDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fffec00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fffec00 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65520
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61424 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=303
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 996.315 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1985.74 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256044k/262080k available (1813k kernel code, 5648k reserved, 614k
data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd94f, last bus=7
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 08 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf5000000, mapped to 0xd080d000, size 1536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4fa8
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of
lspci -vv, this message (11c1,045c,8086,2205)
and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
to serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net.
register_serial(): autoconfig failed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1850-0x1857, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1858-0x185f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: IBM-DCXA-210000, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03a9d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-S200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=1299/240/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 1649.200 MB/sec
32regs : 989.200 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 2042.800 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 2236.000 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 2332.400 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2042.800 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.1
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000020
cs: cb_alloc(bus 5): vendor 0x10ec, device 0x8180
PCI: Enabling device 05:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1860, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin
<saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.1
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:03:47:92:FB:47, IRQ 11.
Board assembly a30469-008, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
Secondary interface chip i82555.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x3258698e).
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).

Stuartb21, I have had alot of those moments. 1st with DVD playback the my digi soundcard. then with burning cds. then with sharing the internet. but the thing is a could do all those things in windows xp right out he gate.

I Hate to say it i think i am just getting lazy.or sick or those "I got it. opps no i don't" moments.

Still nothing. been at it all nigth

Ok, I have given slackware about 20 man hours. I just found out the the redhat 9 disk i had were bad so i am going to try to download them again and See where that gets me if that does not work my and Partition Magic Are going to reclam my HDD and so I do have to reinstall windows.

20 man hours aint really alot!


Why dont you get a live cd (phlak, knoppix,morphix,suse live eval (this needs a hdd) or one of countless others)? and try that.

Then when your a bit more comfy install rh on a seperate partition, but put /home on its own, so when your ready to go for slack again, you dont have to lose all your settings and files.

just a thought, but i love not having windows on my pc!

Oh no this is 20 man hours on this wireless card only. I have loged 1000s over hours in linux I can get eventhing i want to work but wireless. I got the Dlink 650+ to work in mandrake but updating my kernel put an end to that. Then i go A MN-520 but i could not use kismet with that. I had a wmp11 linksys for a day it would have worked if it was not v4. now this blitzz card.