Any wireless gurus out there? I'm running slackware 10.0 on a Compaq r3306 laptop. It has a built in Broadcom wireless card which is working with ndiswrapper, but it's kindof limited in it's capabilities.
I'm trying to get a cisco air-cb21ag-a-k9 working but it's been a no-go so far.
Here's what I've done:
download latest madwifi drivers
compiled fine with no errors
depmod -a => no problem
modprobe ath_pci => gives me the garbage below
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_hal.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary
See [Took this out so I could post] for information about tainted modules
Module ath_hal loaded, with warnings
Module wlan loaded, with warnings
Module ath_rate_onoe loaded, with warnings
Module ath_pci loaded, with warnings
Now I should be able to:
ifconfig ath0 up
But it fires back that the device isn't found
Here's my lsmod, the atheros modules are right on top
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
ath_pci 39728 0 (unused)
ath_rate_onoe 4232 0 [ath_pci]
wlan 85048 0 [ath_pci ath_rate_onoe]
ath_hal 133744 0 [ath_pci]
ndiswrapper 82604 1 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss 37736 0
snd-mixer-oss 12504 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
usb-ohci 19240 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 17580 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [ndiswrapper usb-ohci ehci-hcd]
snd-intel8x0 18924 0
snd-ac97-codec 49500 0 [snd-intel8x0]
gameport 1420 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 56072 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 13604 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6328 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 12740 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 30852 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
8139too 14376 0
mii 2272 0 [8139too]
crc32 2880 0 [8139too]
nvidia 3205624 7
ds 6548 2
yenta_socket 10336 2
pcmcia_core 39972 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ntfs 51424 1 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 9328 0
agpgart 43940 3
lspci gives me this stuff:
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC Bridge (rev a6)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev a4)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 2.0 (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)
00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d9 (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE (rev a5)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP Bridge (rev a4)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 (rev 01)
03:00.0 Class ffff: Illegal Vendor ID: Unknown device ffff (rev ff)
I'm guessing that my problem has something to do with those last few lines there involving the cardbus bridge. I'm still about half newb on this stuff, so any help is much appreciated. Thanks ahead of time
