problems with wireless card drivers
 

Patience, patience, patience. I am a recent refugee from the cult of microsoft, and I will never go back, I don't care how hard things get with Linux.

But this is hard.

I cleared all traces of microsoft from my machine and installed PCLinuxOS. Things have gone without a hitch, except for a few problems that I can't yet solve.

The OS does not acknowledge my wireless card. And I don't know what to tell it, because I have no documentation for this computer (Gateway MT6458), which is relatively new, and I don't know what the card is. I don't know anything about the card other than I suspect that it is made by Marvell.

I tried many ideas from different sites, including messing around with NDIS, but I will confess that this is a bit tricky, although I'm willing to learn.

Here's what happens:

1) I go to Network & Internet in the PCLinuxOS Control Center, and attempt to set up a new network interface, choosing "Wireless."

2) It then asks me to "select the network interface to configure" and gives me only one checked option: "use a windows driver (with nsiswrapper)"

3) I click this and it gives me about 10 choices of drivers, but none of them work.

If you need screen shots for any of these, let me know and I will send them.

So I'm really not sure what to do. I have a lot of patience when it comes to these things, so I'll do what it takes. I'm wondering what to do about the greater issue of not knowing much about the hardware on my computer. For instance, I haven't tried to use s-video with Linux on here yet, but I suspect that will be tough as well. How to make Linux jive with all of the hardware?

any help is appreciated!
Mike

on edit, I would like to add that I believe the card is ‎88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller by Marvell. I think this because pclos recognizes the ethernet card as such, and I believe they are wrapped into one. I just checked the ndiswrapper list and it doesn't have any marvell products in it. Am I screwed?

first we need you to open a terminal and type su the push enter then type your root password now you have assumed root. then type dmesg and post it then type lspci and post it then type lspci -n and post it. then type uname -a and post it. this will tell use in reverse order the kernel and computer the card chip version the card chip maker the card being loaded and the error of why it is not being loaded. and if it is being loaded according to dmesg then how to configure your card is it going to use a ndiswrapper windows driver or a linux driver so before we configure lets find out what the device and kernel is cool good we'll be waiting

Thanks for you reply!
Here's the feedback.

feedback for "dmesg"

Linux version 2.6.22.15.tex1 (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-4pclos2007)) #1 SMP Sat Dec 15 13:15:05 CST 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037e80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037e80000 - 0000000037e92000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037e92000 - 0000000037f00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037f00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Malformed early option 'acpi'
0MB HIGHMEM available.
894MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f85d0
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 228992) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 228992
HighMem 228992 -> 228992
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 228992
On node 0 totalpages: 228992
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 1757 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 223139 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F8530, 0014 (r0 PTLTD )
ACPI: RSDT 37E8C396, 0038 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061127 LTP 0)
ACPI: FACP 37E91BFA, 0074 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061127 ATI F4240)
ACPI: DSDT 37E8C3CE, 582C (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061127 MSFT 100000E)
ACPI: FACS 37E92FC0, 0040
ACPI: SSDT 37E91C6E, 0182 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061127 LTP 1)
ACPI: APIC 37E91DF0, 005E (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061127 LTP 0)
ACPI: MCFG 37E91E4E, 003C (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061127 LTP 0)
ACPI: SLIC 37E91E8A, 0176 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061127 LTP 0)
ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009d000 - 000000000009e000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000d2000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 227203
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda6 acpi=on resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent vga=788
bootsplash: silent mode.
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 1596.132 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 902728k/915968k available (2204k kernel code, 12224k reserved, 730k data, 292k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xffe16000 - 0xfffff000 (1956 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf7e80000 ( 894 MB)
.init : 0xc03e4000 - 0xc042d000 ( 292 kB)
.data : 0xc03273db - 0xc03ddc84 ( 730 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03273db (2204 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3194.33 BogoMIPS (lpj=1597167)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001 00000000 0000001f
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0(2) -> Core 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 00000000 0000001f
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Early unpacking initramfs... done
Freeing initrd memory: 465k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
CPU0: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 stepping 02
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3191.57 BogoMIPS (lpj=1595789)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001 00000000 0000001f
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 1(2) -> Core 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 00000000 0000001f
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 stepping 02
Total of 2 processors activated (6385.91 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 2 CPUs
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
PCI: No mmconfig possible on device 00:18
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x1c, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x1c, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB4_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB5_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKU] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
ACPI: RTC can wake from S4
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x220-0x22f has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0x0-0xfff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 9000-9fff
MEM window: c0100000-c01fffff
PREFETCH window: c8000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: c0200000-c02fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:05.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: c0300000-c03fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 9, cardbus bridge: 0000:08:09.0
IO window: 00002000-000020ff
IO window: 00002400-000024ff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-53ffffff
MEM window: 54000000-57ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: 2000-2fff
MEM window: c0400000-c04fffff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-53ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:09.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1206215261.221:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:04.0:pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:05.0:pcie00]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc8000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3750k, total 16384k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=16
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:53c6
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c5434, set palette = c00c546e
vesafb: pmi: ports = 9010 9016 9054 9038 903c 905c 9000 9004 90b0 90b2 90b4
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 224171 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 224123 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ATIIXP: chipset revision 128
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8410-0x8417, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ATIIXP: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: ATIIXP Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST9160821A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T10N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: selected mode 0x45
hdb: selected mode 0x42
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k freed
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x23aeb3, caps: 0xa04713/0x10008
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 18, io mem 0xc0004000
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 18, io mem 0xc0005000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 18, io mem 0xc0006000
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:09.1[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[21] MMIO=[c0405000-c04057ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: Kensington ? Pocket Mouse Pro Wireless as /class/input/input2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [ Kensington ? Pocket Mouse Pro Wireless] on usb-0000:00:13.0-1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbmouse
drivers/hid/usbhid/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0b803670434ed]
Capability LSM initialized
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:08:09.0 [107b:0367]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:08:09.0, mfunc 0x01ac1b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ef8, PCI irq 16
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x2000 - 0x2fff
cs: IO port probe 0x2000-0x2fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc0400000 - 0xc04fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x50000000 - 0x53ffffff
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc17 0xc50-0xc57 0xc68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcdf
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driver v1.26.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
powernow-k8: Found 2 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 processors (version 2.00.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x13
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x14
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O DEBUG MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
loop: module loaded
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 224171 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 224123 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
No dock devices found.
input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input4
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input6
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
ACPI: Video Device [VGA_AGP] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -147725737 ns)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
sky2 0000:02:00.0: v1.14 addr 0xc0200000 irq 17 Yukon-FE (0xb7) rev 1
sky2 eth0: addr 00:e0:b8:d4:3b:1c
sky2 eth0: enabling interface
sky2 eth0: ram buffer 4K
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
fuse init (API version 7.8)
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
bcm43xx driver
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3177 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3177 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3177 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3177 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3177 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3177 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on
hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.
UDP: short packet: From 24.104.98.2:27629 51197/73 to 122.125.157.5:52984
UDP: bad checksum. From 71.113.195.189:50034 to 122.125.157.5:36600 ulen 71
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
SCSI subsystem initialized
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
sky2 eth0: Link is down.
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 4
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Kensington ? Pocket Mouse Pro Wireless as /class/input/input7
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [ Kensington ? Pocket Mouse Pro Wireless] on usb-0000:00:13.1-2
sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
UDP: short packet: From 24.104.98.2:27629 61820/71 to 122.125.136.162:52984
UDP: short packet: From 24.104.98.2:27629 36200/73 to 122.125.136.162:52984
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
UDP: short packet: From 24.104.98.2:27629 51118/73 to 122.125.136.162:52984
UDP: short packet: From 24.104.98.2:27629 47123/73 to 122.125.136.162:52984

feedback for: "lspci"

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 2a08 (rev 03)
08:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
08:09.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
08:09.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

feedback for "lspci -n"

00:00.0 0600: 1002:5950 (rev 10)
00:01.0 0604: 1002:5a3f
00:04.0 0604: 1002:5a36
00:05.0 0604: 1002:5a37
00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4374 (rev 80)
00:13.1 0c03: 1002:4375 (rev 80)
00:13.2 0c03: 1002:4373 (rev 80)
00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4372 (rev 83)
00:14.1 0101: 1002:4376 (rev 80)
00:14.2 0403: 1002:437b (rev 01)
00:14.3 0601: 1002:4377 (rev 80)
00:14.4 0604: 1002:4371 (rev 80)
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
01:05.0 0300: 1002:5975
02:00.0 0200: 11ab:4352 (rev 14)
05:00.0 0200: 11ab:2a08 (rev 03)
08:09.0 0607: 104c:8039
08:09.1 0c00: 104c:803a
08:09.2 0180: 104c:803b

feedback for "uname -a"

Linux localhost 2.6.22.15.tex1 #1 SMP Sat Dec 15 13:15:05 CST 2007 i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 GNU/Linux

From the output of dmesg i will say our problem is you have not got ndiswrapper loaded. you can confirm that by running lsmod as root. This is easily corrected by running modprobe ndiswrapper. Once you have done that run ndiswrapper -l and it will tell you something like

<driver_name> driver present, hardware present

If you still having problems after you load ndiswrapper paste the output of dmesg | grep ndis.

Also you may want to check out the linux wireless website at linuxwireless.org and ndiswrapper at ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net as they provide support on how to setup wireless for linux

I will check out that website.

Those commands don't work in my terminal. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Hi,

When making changes to the system you must be root. You can 'su' to become root, do a 'man su' to understand the command.

In the future when you post long lists or data, use the vbcode # or quote at the top of the reply window. That way the list will be easier to read.

If you could post the output of 'lspci -vv', the diagnosis would be easier then the 'lspci -n'.

If you go the NDIS way then be sure to use the current M$ windows driver (.inf) for your device.

Thanks Gary, here is the output for lspci --vv

Is anyone still out there? I've tried the commands listed in the above post and no luck. lsmod and modprobe do not even work in my terminal under root.

Hi,

If you cannot use the 'lsmod' as root from the cli then you have other issues that must be corrected. Where did you get your iso for the distro? If you downloaded did you check the md5sum for the iso and the burnt image?