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DAX PCI Installation on redhat linux 10 and/ or 9
hi there
I was provided a pci card DX-900PCI DAX networks by my friend to be installed on the compaq system. The problem is that the company is not providing any linux driver with it and i have not been able to find one on the net. I am a newbie to wifi as well as linux. so what should i do? NEWBIE |
I take it this DX900PCI is a pci wireless nic?
I ask because if you google "DX900" you get everything from underwear to exercycles. Also - is this Red Hat 10 (severn) or Fedora Core 1 ... ? Technically they're the same thing but some folk got the beta release of RH10 before Fedora took over. Whichever it is, you should already be able to access w-lan cards under RH/FC. What do lspci and dmesg say? |
i will find out about that and the version and come back to you. I think it is the version after fedora took over. But i am not sure about it. Is there a was to find weather it is beta or the real one wihout asking anyone.
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The admins say that they can provide a linksys wifi product in place of this one. Which one do you think is better. linksys or dax.
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version of linux is
Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) and Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) :study: |
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The system should tell you when it boots. A cool way of looking is to activate one of the textual screensavers (like starwars) which, if it is still set to defaults, should print out the system, version, and usage. You also havn't posted the output of lspci Open a terminal window cd into /sbin do "./lspci" copy the output and paste it here. This will tell us if you're system can see the card, and if you have any possible conflicts. There's no point swapping cards over unless you know for a fact that it is the card and not something you're doing right? Lastly - try to configer a network connection for the card in the usual way. I tell you again: ethernet cards usually work with linux "out of the box" - no additional drivers needed. Tell us what you did, step by step, and what the computer said: verbatim. Honestly, if you will egnore advice and withhold details, we cannot help you. |
These versions are on two seperate systems of the same configuration.
for the second version it is - lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 01) 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01) dmesg Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007fd0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000007fd0000 - 0000000007ff0000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000008000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000feea0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 128MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 32768 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28672 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ Initializing CPU#0 Detected 863.892 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1723.59 BogoMIPS Memory: 124624k/131072k available (1347k kernel code, 4908k reserved, 999k data, 132k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 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: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... 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 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xe838d, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2440] at 00:1f.0 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 not found. Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K 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 ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 ICH2: chipset revision 1 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2460-0x2467, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2468-0x246f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: ST320424A, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c03c9f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: LTN485, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: setmax LBA 39102337, native 39102336 hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2586/240/63, UDMA(100) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide 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 8192 bind 16384) 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: 145k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:59:01 Mar 13 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.4 (0004 -> 0005) PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.4 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1000, 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 usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal Adding Swap: 521600k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. 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. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.1.29-k2 Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 02:08.0 e100: selftest OK. divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 VM Network Connection Hardware receive checksums enabled ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! |
Have you seen:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_.../Wireless.html The following bits attract my attention from your lspci and dmesg output... Quote:
[a lot of fancy, but wrong, guesswork eliminated - apologies for the confusion... unfortunately this got read before I got back: sorry again. Better luck via LinkSys and NdisWrapper.] Looks a lot like the dax card won't work. See my next post. The HOWTO is still a good link tho. |
I will try it out and give the information as soon a possible
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Hah - I'm back.
Is this the card: http://www.daxnetworks.com/Dax/Produ...p/dx900cba.asp If so - I see you have two notebooks. Check that pcmcia is turned on. (You may want to try disabling the native ethernet card in BIOS and then rebooting with the Dax Networking card still plugged in. Run dmesg | grep eth and see if eth0 still shows up and if it is the Dax card. The Dax cards seem pretty standard - FC should autodetect them. But detail is missing on the website. On Lincsys Wireless... Their latest stuff uses 802.11g (Wireless-G) http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=36&prid=621 And it works in linux... see: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php?cat=144 ... check the exact model against this list. In general they work with NdisWrapper and the windows driver. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ For that matter, there may be something there that will get the dax card to work. |
Just a postscript on wifi standards
Standard : Band : channels : bitrate/channel : notes 802.11b : 2.4GHz : 3 : 11Mbps : crowded band - everything uses it! 802.11a : 5GHZ : 8 : 54Mbps : clear band, cannot be used in Europe 802.11g : 2.4GHz : 3 : 54Mbps : crowded band - latest, cheap, and fast. most access points support a and b. Linux kernel support is strongest for these. |
yes it is the card dx-900CBA.
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Great! See how quick you're help would have been had you supplied that info at the start? (To be fair, you did tell us the manufacturer.)
From what I can see, accept the linksys card - but check which type it is against the HCL |
yes it is the card dx-900CBA. I tried to search with it. But was unsuccessful with it too.
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they have not mentioned this information anywhere on the product or the package. i digged into their site where i suspected the card. The information that is provided with the product is that it is a DX-900PCI product. Nothing else. Even on the site there is no such thing as DX-900PCI. I was actualy confused before so i did not inform you. Now i was able to conform the details and gave you the information. Sorry for the delay.
Prasanth |
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