Wireless Card Not Detected on Slackware-based Distro

SoulMazer · 07-13-2009, 10:10 PM

Hi, I am pretty familiar with Linux however I am new to Slackware and wireless. I seem to be having a great deal of trouble setting up my wireless card (by the way, it is not USB).

So, my main goal is to of course connect to my wireless network. I think my main problem is that my system is not even detecting my wireless card. Since I am not exactly sure what kind of card I have, would somebody be able to help me determine this? And once I figure out what kind of card I have, how should I go about solving my problem?

I have also read a few other threads and will post the output of commands which I believe will help in providing more info.

Thanks in advance.

Quote:

================ lspci ===============
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Unknown device [1022:9600]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Unknown device [1022:9602]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Unknown device [1022:9604]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Unknown device [1022:9605]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Unknown device [1022:9606]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 IDE [1002:439c]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1300] (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map [1022:1301]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller [1022:1302]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Control [1022:1303]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control [1022:1304]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:9612]
01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:960f]
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device [168c:002b] (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)

=============== lsusb =============
Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 1 Device 2: ID 04f2:b179 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 5 Device 2: ID 138a:0001
Bus 5 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 6 Device 1: ID 0000:0000

============== lsmod =============
Module Size Used by
ath_pci 256568 0
wlan 226416 1 ath_pci
ath_hal 307168 1 ath_pci
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 32768 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49872 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10508 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42656 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 2 snd_pcm_oss
pcmcia 35244 0
pcmcia_core 36628 1 pcmcia
capability 7304 0
commoncap 9344 1 capability
fuse 41876 4
agpgart 31304 0
lp 13864 0
parport_pc 27940 0
parport 34888 2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr 6400 0
psmouse 38792 0
snd_hda_intel 20248 1
snd_hda_codec 211712 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 71428 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 46692 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 9824 2 snd
r8169 29704 0
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw 9220 0
i2c_piix4 11404 0
ata_generic 9220 0
evdev 12032 5
sg 30364 0
shpchp 33300 0
aufs 106372 1
squashfs 48388 11
sqlzma 6916 1 squashfs
unlzma 8576 1 sqlzma

=============== dmesg-firmware ==============

============== kernel version ==============
2.6.21.5

rob.rice · 07-13-2009, 11:56 PM

here is your wifi card
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device [168c:002b] (rev 01)

as far as I know Atheros Communications has open sourced all of it's drivers in the madwifi project
that can be downloaded here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/
here is the home page for the madwifi project
http://madwifi-project.org/

SoulMazer · 07-14-2009, 12:39 AM

Thanks rob.rice. So, I've downloaded madwifi and am currently trying to install it. When I try "make", I am greeted with the following:

Quote:

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.21.5/build: No such file or directory
Makefile.inc:66 *** /lib/modules/2.6.21.5/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.

I Googled this and found that I needed to create a symbolic link from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.21.5 to /lib/modules/2.6.21.5/build. However, I do not seem to have a "linux-headers-2.6.21.5" in my /usr/src directory. What can I do about this?

Thanks again.

rob.rice · 07-14-2009, 12:34 PM

install the full kernel source package
you will find it in the "/slackware/k/kernel-source-2.6.29.5-noarch-2.tgz" package
better yet to fix any problems from left out packages just cd to /your-install-disk-mount-point/slackware/"^M "upgradepkg --reinstall ./*/*.tgz "^M
then you most likely would want to do a removepkg kdei* it's easier to remove them than exclude them
then lilo because this will most likely rewrite the kernel and mess up your boot image
besides it never hurts to rerun lilo so when in doubt rerun lilo

pg99 · 07-14-2009, 12:42 PM

have you tried alien bobs wiki yet?
"Installing Madwifi on Slackware" http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:madwifi

rob.rice · 07-14-2009, 04:17 PM

I just installed slackware64-current not only did it find my athrous wifi card but it also connected it up to my AP on the first boot
without me having to configure anything

SoulMazer · 07-15-2009, 06:50 PM

Ok, well I tried again to install madwifi and I received a different error.

Since the errors in the output are so long, I will just post a link to it.

Link

ap0calypse · 07-16-2009, 03:01 AM

Could you tell us which netbook or notebook that is? Because my Eee-PC had Atheros-based hardware too and I know how to configure it to work with Slackware.

SoulMazer · 07-16-2009, 12:53 PM

Sure, it's an HP pavilion dv6000.

rob.rice · 07-16-2009, 09:59 PM

by slackware like distro witch one victor.slamd64or BlueWhite64
going by what I've seen from loking around the net this computer
I think it will run slackware64-current

the latest version of madwifi is in the latest linux kernel
well from the error codes in the link you have the 2.6.29.4 kernel sources installed
you might as well go ahead and build a new kernel
I posted a good starting thread here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-point-739424/