Ok, I'm new here and not much of a forum goer, but I'm stuck and need help.
Here's the deal, I bought an Acer Travelmate 4402, and managed to get everything working under Slackware 10.2 with some kernel tweaking and whatnot.
Then I ran into some trouble with Wireless.
First of all, I have to admit, I'm new to wireless, and I'm new to laptops. Which means I'm new to PCMCIA, so this might explain part of my ignorance.
First I tried to make the integrated wireless card with NdisWrapper, which installed fine, modules worked etc... but then when i ran iwlist wlan0 scan. it would find nothing. Nor would it let me change the ESSID.
So I gave up and bought a cheap D-Link Airplus XtremeG (DWL-g650) rev B5.
The only reason to buy this card is that it appears in the kernel as supported by the Prism2 drivers (if i recall correctly)
But now, I can't seem to access the card via PCMCIA.
Here's some output from some of the common commands, dmesg doesn't throw anything other than "ioctl is deprecated" regarding PCMCIA
Code:
#cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
#cardctl status
Socket 0:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]
#cardctl config
Socket 0:
Vcc 3.3V Vpp1 3.3V Vpp2 3.3V
interface type is "cardbus"
irq 11 [exclusive] [level]
function 0:
# cardctl info
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a38
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a39
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4378 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)
06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
06:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
06:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:06.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
06:06.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
#lsmod doesn't show much because I'm using a custom kernel with everything I needed compiled in.
Does anyone have any idea why the card isn't being recognized anywhere?
The card works just fine in windows, so I know it's not damaged...
Thanks a lot and sorry for the long post. Hope i haven't bored you too much and that this was posted on the correct section.
- A n00b -
