Odd that there is no light on the card. Usually at least they flash during boot.

try
All interfaces are coded differently. So your wireless might be eth1. I thought it would have been wlan0.(But they may be what Ndiswrapper uses.)

I just connected to my network using a cable on eth0, and now networkconfig shows the following out put in the terminal:

# networkconfig
**** /sbin/dhcpcd: not running
**** /sbin/dhcpcd: not running
dhcpcd: MAC address = 08:00:46:2f:a9:ab
dhcpcd: your IP address = 192.168.1.100
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: eth1 is 'Any ESSID'

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: eth1 is 'Any ESSID'
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: eth1 is 'Any ESSID'

I have seen the SIO... message during boot up also.

Here's the iwconfig output:

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 NOT READY! ESSIDff/any Nickname:"(none)"
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200
Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B
Encryption keyff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


I'm going to do a netpkg upgrade-all to see if something changes.

Thanks for trying.....

what do you get when you try dhcpcd eth1.

dhcpcd eth1 returns to the prompt, no output.

There are no lights on the card, which leads me to believe it is not being detected.

What happens when you try to get on the internet then. When using my USB dlink it would not always flash the lights but would work.

There is no wireless. Eth0 works. When I "modprobe prism54", dmesg shows "eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')

what does lspci -v show.

Last entry is the relevant one, I guess:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: e8100000-e9ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 38000000-380fffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at 1c40 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1c20 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2

00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1c54 [size=4]
I/O ports at 1c50 [size=4]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 30)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at 38100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 30000000-31fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 32000000-33fff000
I/O window 0: 00002000-000020ff
I/O window 1: 00002400-000024ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
Memory at 38101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 34000000-35fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 36000000-37fff000
I/O window 0: 00002800-000028ff
I/O window 1: 00002c00-00002cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at e8004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
Memory at e8004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 80f6
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 5
Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at e8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 38000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1

06:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear WG511 Wireless Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 10
Memory at 36000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

Are you sure your card is a prism54 card?

also one thing I saw was that your system was showing a lot of unknown devices.

looking on the Ubuntu and Kanotix partitions I see /lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890...
Perhaps I need to netpkg hotplug?

I would try that and also see if isl3890 is in /lib/modules/2.6.17.6/kernel/driver/net or /lib/modules/2.6.17.6/drivers/net/wireless

I did some checking and the taiwan model listed as prism54, but I'm not sure. I assumed (!!).

Since it is trying to load isl3890, maybe hotplug is the answer. Is that an option in zen?

Yes it is. Might look under System for system config. I was looking through the menus and found service manager. might try there to see if it is already installed. Looking into your card now. Can you give me more information about it.