Cant get SMC wireless card recognized on MDK 9.1
Hello once again,
well i tried 2 install my new smc2632w-ca pc card on ibm tp 390 w/Mandrake 9.1 running. I installed the 3 wlan drivers as found here http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/ using the i586 versions. originally i used the i686 version because message splash on bootup stating i586 for bamboo installed and then the next line would say something to the effect that i686 for tty1 was also being used. I assume i am right in using the i586 drivers? when i use mandrake Control Center i see nothing for a wireless ethernet card. The original Linksys wired ethernet card worked fine in the pcmia slot. Have i missed something? I did the research and found this card is suppose to have the prism II chipset and these drivers should work like a charm. But alas linux has humbled this newbie once more. Have I missed something else? I get green power light on card and it beeps twice when removed and reinserted but still it doesnt show in MCC. I made a printout of dmesg if that helps: dmesg Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000009ff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000009ff0000 - 0000000009fffc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000009fffc00 - 000000000a000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffea000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 159MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 On node 0 totalpages: 40944 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 36848 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f71a0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 01540.00000) @ 0x09ffa98f ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM 430TX 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffb65 ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffbd9 ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM ThinkPad 01540.00000) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist ACPI: MADT not present IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount pci=biosirq acpi=on Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Could not enable APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 233.293 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS Memory: 158524k/163776k available (1410k kernel code, 4864k reserved, 1118k data, 136k 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: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... 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 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda05, last bus=3 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 9) schedule_task(): keventd has not started ACPI: Power Resource [PFAN] (off) PCI: Probing PCI hardware ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) apm: overridden by ACPI. Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfd000000, mapped to 0xca80b000, size 2496k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=1 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a730 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: FUJITSU MHK2060AT, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: SANYO CRD-S372B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 11733120 sectors (6007 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=730/255/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 107k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usbdevfs: remount parameter error EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent) ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) ACPI: Fan [FAN] (off) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (48 C) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN] inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] ds: no socket drivers loaded! unloading Kernel Card Services Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000010 Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000006 cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Splash status on console 0 changed to off parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (polling). [eroica@localhost eroica]$ iwlist bash: iwlist: command not found [eroica@localhost eroica]$ su Password: [root@localhost eroica]# iwconfig bash: iwconfig: command not found as u can see also i was book and it suggested using the iwconfig command but that doesnt exist on my machine. Any and all help will be most appreciated... alan |
Log in as a full root user and verify that the wireless-tools RPM is installed. Next, check that the files in /etc/pcmcia are correctly configured to access your driver when the card is inserted.l Once you think that's done, insert the card and post any additional messages that may appear in dmesg.
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forgive my ignorance but u are dealing w/a newbie who is used to windows environment. How would I 1:verify that the wireless RPM tools are installed and 2:what should properly configured etc/pcmia files look like. Sorry for being so ignorant but you gotta crawl b4 u can walk.
thanx, alan |
1. rpm -q wireless-tools will tell you if the package is installed correctly.
2. A properly configured pcmcia config file would have an entry like this: card "SMC2632W-CA 802.11 Wireless Ethernet" version "SMC", "2632W-CA" bind "orinoco_cs" If the card is a true Prism II device, then the orinoco_cs driver is the one that you should try. It's part of the kernel source, and if you're still using a vendor kernel then it should be present. |
well at this point i'm ready to throw out everything. i talked to SMC support it turns out i have version 2 of the 2632w wifi card and it uses the atmel chip set. i removed the wlan drivers and installed drivers that they e-mailed to me. alas still no card in mandrake center shows up. Now i get an error message on the bootup splash screen when pcmcia service is loading and it says "cardmgr (some#):unsupported card in socket 0." So i try to install latest pcmcia-cs-3.2.7 package and of course I cant. first question on make install is where is my kernel source and uses default /usr/src/linux. When i choose that it says it not there. i do a search for any directory w/linux in it and try several and none of them are right either. What do i have to do to get this pcmcia-cs package installed???? Could somebody please give a clear and concise method for finding out where or even if i have my kernel source on my set-up. What is the kernel source anyway? And 2nd explain in newbie terms if i dont have kernel source what are the steps to get thesource? are they on distro disc's,do i have to go on net 2 get them etc? And once i have source what do i do w/it so maybe i can compile pcmcia_cs. I also was able to install wireless tools and nothing comes up. the pcmcia/config file along w/several other files i updated per SMC web site : http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=...AQ¬e_id=420
and only difference is bind "wvlan_cs". here's the output of dmesg again if helpful: [root@localhost eroica]# dmesg Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000009ff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000009ff0000 - 0000000009fffc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000009fffc00 - 000000000a000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffea000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 159MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 On node 0 totalpages: 40944 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 36848 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f71a0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 01540.00000) @ 0x09ffa98f ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM 430TX 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffb65 ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffbd9 ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM ThinkPad 01540.00000) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist ACPI: MADT not present IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount pci=biosirq acpi=on Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Could not enable APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 233.292 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS Memory: 158524k/163776k available (1410k kernel code, 4864k reserved, 1118k data, 136k 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: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... 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 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda05, last bus=3 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 9) schedule_task(): keventd has not started ACPI: Power Resource [PFAN] (off) PCI: Probing PCI hardware ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) apm: overridden by ACPI. Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfd000000, mapped to 0xca80b000, size 2496k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=1 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a730 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: FUJITSU MHK2060AT, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: SANYO CRD-S372B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 11733120 sectors (6007 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=730/255/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 107k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usbdevfs: remount parameter error EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent) ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) ACPI: Fan [FAN] (off) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (29 C) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN] inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000010 Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000006 cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Splash status on console 0 changed to off [root@localhost eroica]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. [root@localhost eroica]# thanx again for your time and hopefully one day i can enjot wifi alan |
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