Dell Truemobile 1150 (another wireless question)

zuessh · 06-24-2003, 12:45 PM

I'm running slack 8.1 on a dell latitude C640, that comes with an onboard dell truemobile 1150 wireless card. During the slack install I 'thought' I told it to install all network card packages. What is the best way to determin if I have the right modules and or drivers for this card to work? If I do a ifconfig only eth0 shows up. Thanks in advance.

finegan · 06-24-2003, 09:15 PM

What's the output of: "/sbin/lspci", some of these mini-pci cards in the Dells are prism2, some are orinocos, and unfortunately some are broadcoms.

Cheers,

Finegan

zuessh · 06-25-2003, 11:30 AM

Below is the output of /sbin/lspci

bash-2.05a# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

Thanks again

finegan · 06-25-2003, 03:51 PM

Uhmmm... according to that list, there is no wireless ethernet controller.

Cheers,

Finegan

emence · 06-25-2003, 03:57 PM

Do you have a entry in dmesg that states no driver claimed or something to that effect???

zuessh · 07-24-2003, 01:59 PM

I have changed to red hat 8.0 and if I do a dmesg i get the following:

wvlan_cs : WAVELAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6
wvlan_cs : blah something about somebodys name
wvlan_cs : index irq.... blah
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
wvlan_cs : Registered Netdevice eth1
wvlan_cs :Mac add for eth1 is blah blah
wvlan_cs : Found Firmware 0x8000A vendor 1 Firmware capabilities 1-2-1-1-1

If i ifconfig eth1 the RX packets number changes and the RX bytes number changes. I am assuming the card is up and running, would this be a safe assumption?