Toshiba Tecra S2

bittus · 08-27-2006, 01:16 PM

Could anyone help me installing wireless device in RedHat AS 3 on my Toshiba Tecra S2 ?

odcheck · 08-28-2006, 06:08 AM

no problem. WE will make it!
So what wireless device you got?
Or other question what is the output of
the command lspci ?

bittus · 08-30-2006, 12:35 AM

thanx for the immediate response. but it seems my LAN card is also not working.

below is the output of lspci

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port (rev 03)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0148 (rev a2)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

06:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

odcheck · 08-30-2006, 02:33 AM

Great !
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
06:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

Both are recognized.
Did you check the command system-config-network to see if you're able to configure your LAN Nic?
For the Intel pro Wireless I can give you a lot of Info and it will be easy to et it working.
ipw2200 Documentation can be found here.
Here you can download the Firmware you'll need to load ATRPMS.NET

bittus · 08-31-2006, 03:16 AM

thank u so much.

when i try the command - system-config-network, its asking for the device.

wat will i give the device as ?

i am also trying 4 the wireless driver. it keeps on asking for dependencies and i ended up with the dependency failure

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142
/ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2142

shld i need to recompile the kernel ?

odcheck · 08-31-2006, 06:40 AM

Okay in system-config-network the lan nic is in the most cases eth0.
And regarding compile a new kernel No.
What happens if you issue the command
/sbin/ifconfig -a
you'll see which devices can be setup.

If there is any other device then LO (loopback) then you should be able to configure it with system-config-network.
Cause if we get your LAN Nic working to connect to the internet we can easy catch up the rest using YUM or APT for the dependency problems regarding wireless.

bittus · 09-03-2006, 12:25 AM

hi,

it seems there is no eth0 device.
it will be great if i could get atleast the NIC up and running.

i tried in several other sites, got driver for marvell. but wen i tried installing it, it gave some errors and and at last i was forced for a kernel compilation which also ended up in another error. is it necessary that i shld recompile kernel to get any of this working.

now this is tough time for me to get atleast the NIC to start working.

the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a is as follows. it seems it has identified only the lo adapter.

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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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

odcheck · 09-04-2006, 12:56 AM

Okay it seems that it will be easier to install the Wireless Lan IPW2200 Card rather then the Marvel Gigabit Controller.
But here is a driver download within Marvell.com
And regarding the Intel Pro Wireless 2200 MiniPCI
I need to know which errors you've got exactly regarding the missing dependencies.
uname -rm will show your running kernel version.

bittus · 09-12-2006, 03:56 AM

hi dear,

thanks a lot for ur help. i appreciate ur efforts.

i succesfully configured my NIC after downloading updated (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Update 4 (x86)) from redhat site . . . .

still i need help to bring up my wireless card.

waiting for ur help . .. .

take care . . . .

odcheck · 09-12-2006, 04:03 AM

just check your running kernel version with

Code:

uname -rm

and download all the rpms you'll need from http://atrpms.net

bittus · 09-12-2006, 05:25 AM

kernel version is 2.6.9-42.EL i686

odcheck · 09-12-2006, 05:41 AM

Fine so go on and download the files you need.
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/ieee80211-k...l4.at.i686.rpm
and
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/ipw2200-kmd...l4.at.i686.rpm
and the firmware
http://www.atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware/