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Old 11-29-2004, 08:38 PM   #1
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Built-in wireless just disappears


My wireless card (which is built-in to my laptop) just disappeared from my system. The modules load like it was there but when I go to add the network device (eth2), there is no such device. lspci doesn't list it either. Does anyone have a clue?
 
Old 11-29-2004, 10:51 PM   #2
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More information on what kind of card it is.. what's the output of ifconfig, is the module loaded, why would it be eth2, do you have multiple NIC's on this machine.... etc??
 
Old 11-30-2004, 08:26 AM   #3
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The card uses the orinoco_cs module. The reason it's eth2 is because there's an ethernet card (eth0) and there's a firewire card that uses the ethernet over firewire protocol (eth1). The wireless card is assigned eth2. Here's the output from ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:3F:81:88:E2
inet addr:192.168.0.118 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:3fff:fe81:88e2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:473 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:155414 (151.7 Kb) TX bytes:54615 (53.3 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7732 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:7732 (7.5 Kb)

As you can see, there's no entry for eth2. The modules for the card are loaded, here's the output from lsmod:

orinoco_cs 8072 0
ds 18788 1 orinoco_cs
pcmcia_core 61316 2 orinoco_cs,ds
orinoco 41548 1 orinoco_cs
hermes 8704 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
 
  


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