Not finding my wireless card on startup
My system does not find my Belkin F5D7000 on startup. Can anybody tell me I need to put in modprobe <parameter> to make FC4 look for the card?
I'm a newbie, be gentle please? I was VERY pleased that I was able to build an ndiswrapper for the card, and it appears to have been built properly, but that's not much use when the system doesn't find the card. :confused: |
It is likely that the ndiswrapper module isn't getting loaded on boot. Have a look at the output of lsmod and if you don't see ndiswrapper in the list, you need to load it with modprobe. Hopefully that will get the card recognized, but with Fedora, who knows.
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All you should have to do is a:
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cardctl eject n cardctl eject 1 cardctl insert 1 modprobe ndiswrapper [set with iwconfig or use wpa_supplicant] dhclient -q wlan0 ...until you figure out the right sequence and parameters that work best for you. f you find you have to issue a sequence of commands to get it to work, you may wish to create a small shell script to do this and reference it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local If it still doesn't work, see if you have firmware at /lib/firmware |
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I've watched the whole boot sequence from the back of the PC, the card never has any either of the ethernet status LEDs light up. The card does not appear when I do an lspci either. If anybody can help by seeing my system spec in more detail, please take a look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...16#post1752816 |
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Thanks for hanging in there dog42 and helping out with this. :)
If I put my old Soundblaster Live! card in a PCI slot it gets recognised (modprobed) fine, so I know a particular slot and also PCI bus is working. If I put the Wireless card in the same slot, or any other, it just doesn't get found. I've stripped the machine bare so I have only a graphics card in the AGP slot and this wireless card in a PCI slot. The PC where it was working (under Win XP Home SP2) was a brand new Dell Dimension 5000. This old one is pre-1999 motherboard. I'm beginning to think that maybe the version of PCI that the card needs is not supported by the motherboard. Is that a possible explanation? The manual for the wireless card doesn't help. It just says that 32-bit PCI is required. The motherboard manual is more precise. It says it supports 32-bit PCI v2.0 and v2.1. |
I had a problem similar to that but on a debian system: modprobe ndiswrapper seemed to work but ndiswrapper -l showed only that the driver was installed - but no hardware present. I will tell you what I did because it might be of use to you.
I basically did a 'refresh' of everything. (shown here in sequence) ndiswrapper -e <your driver> rmmod ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -i <the INF file of your driver in the appropriate location> depmod -a modprobe ndiswrapper You may find this helpful, just thought I would add my two cents in. Afterwards 'modprobe ndiswrapper' should be able to do the trick, so you can have that in a script somewhere to be automated at boot. |
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Other than AM1SHFURN1TURE's suggestion, I really don't have any ideas other than getting yourself a different wireless card. |
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