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Im having trouble setting up my 2Wire card. I have tried using Puppy,Ubuntu,Xubuntu,Memphis and Knoppix and I just cant seem to get it to work. One thing I did notice is that unlike with WinXP the cards power light never came on. Is there a way to check that my PCMCIA slot is actually active,which may be my problem. Im trying to stick with Puppy or Xubuntu.
Thanks
John
Be aware there are some older systems that have 16 bit PCMCIA card slots only, my old Compaq lappy is that way. It will only support 16 bit ( old cards ). I don't know if this is the problem, but it sounds like a possibility. Most newer cards are 32 bit cards. Have a look at the hardware documentation to find out.
Some manufacturers do have diagnostics. Some even give you a copy. Check on their web site to see if any are available.
What driver have you loaded? Please post some information about the card. Make model, rev # etc. Look in XP to find out how the card is recognized there.
Sorry about the lack of info. Its a 2wire PCMCIA card 802.11g wireless adapter. H/W Rev 0.3. there is no furtehr info on the card. 2wire has no info on their web site about it. WinXP device manager says its using driver wlancig.sys. Its recognised as a 2wire
802.11g cardbus wireless LAN card #2 under network adapter in device manager. My PCMCIAI adapters are Texas Instruments PCI-1131 cardbus controllers. I loaded the wlancig.inf and sys file and tried installing that as well, but no luck. My PCMCIA slots are 32bit, one is a type II the other is a type II/III(IV)Zoomed Video.
This is really driving me nuts, Im installing different Linus distrubutions and reformating almost every hour and nothing seems to work.
I just need to know how to make sure the PCMCIA adapter is getting power first off. Ive narrowed my software choices to Knoppex, Puppy and Featherweight.(Xunabutu kept freezing and would not install)
Thanks
John
Pick one distro, install it, and then we'll work on the problem. Linux is not windbloze. You need a driver loaded, to operate he card. The lights may be off until we load the correct driver, configure the card, and start things up.
One thing you can do, once you decide which distro to go with, open a konsole, do a 'su' and enter the root password, and then run the command 'lsmod'. Cut and paste the results to this thread. That will show what, if any driver you have loaded. My guess is there won't be one.
Thanks for the link. I guess I lots more work to do. Id like to use Xunbuntu but I cant get it to install, keeps freezing. GIven the choice Id like to stay with Knoppix.
Thanks
John
Ok, using Knoppix 5.1 heres where Im at. I did the Ismod and the below results. I put all the drivers I could fit onto one floppy and issued the following commands at the terminal, it sounded like the drivers were loading but still no go.
sudo ndiswrapper wlanUIG.inf
sudo modprpobe ndiswrapper
O.K., so you are trying to use ndiswrapper, and the windoze driver. This is a method of getting a wireless card going I have never used. I'm going to do some reading. I'm wondering in the mean time if you could post the results of the following commands. 'lspci -vv' This will list a detailed list of PCI bus adapters in your system. If you could cut and paste the ethernet results only. Also after running the modprobe of ndiswrapper, are there any error messages? If not, that is a good sign. Also after you modprobe ndiswarpper, would you run the commands 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig' and paste the results here. That will show if the card and driver are configured or not.
Please have a look at this tutorial on getting a wireless card working with ndiswrapper. There are some differences to what you are trying to do. First of all, this is for Slackware. You do not need to compile source to get ndiswrapper installed. It comes with Knoppix. There are some ggod hints to see if ndiswrapper loaded the driver successfully. Look for those instructions, load the driver, and try to see if the load was successful, or if you are dealing with error conditions.
Once it loads, you need to configure the card to work with your network. It is not as simple as 'loaded it" and it works.
There is a sample of how to use iwconfig and ifconfig at the end to configure and display configuration on the card. Let me know if I can be of more help.
On post #10 I said I had never used ndiswrapper, successfully. Update, I put Knoppix 3.9 in my wifes ( XP system ) ThinkPad, and put a D-Link-650+ wireless lan card. Booted Knoppix, and I have the D-link-650+ working with ndiswrapper. Here is what I did to make it go.
1. I had to find the .INF file and other windoze driver files on the hard drive. I looked in proporties for the card in windoze to find the name of the INF file. I had recently updated the driver form D-links support site. I had all the driver files in one directory.
2. In Knoppix, on the bottom, there is a Penguin, clicked it, Network/Internet, and Ndiswrapper Configuration. Launched that, navigated to the directory where the D-link drivers are, and clicked the INF file. Clicked the O.K. button. The script gives you a message about configuring the card.
3.Back to the Penguin, Network/Internet, Network card Configuration. Click it, that runs a script so you can input your network configuration. I have a router, and I got all the information from the wireless lan configuraiton page on the router. I nneded to know ESSID, Channel WEP key, my system is configured with one, mode ( set this to 'auto'. Clicked on O.K. at the end.
At this point you can run 'iwconfig' to see if your parameters have taken effect; they should have.
You can run 'ifconfig' to see if you have an IP address ( I'm running DHCP ). I did not, so I ran the pump command. 'pump -i wlan0' hit enter, and re-ran ifconfig. I now had a IP address. Ping the router, pinged my other system.
Brought up Firefox, I'm online.
Things that confused me, the Antheros card is called Ath0, the 650+ card is called wlan0. I have another D-link card, it is a DWL-G630. It uses the Antheros chip set. Knoppix loads a driver when it boots. All I do with that card is run Wavelan configuration, and pump, and that card works.
The dwl-650+ card has a Texas Instruments chip set, and Knoppix does not know what to do with it, there is no native driver for that card. Now I know Ndiswrapper and the windbloze drivers will work with it.
BTW, with the dwl-650+ working, the Link light on the card never comes on. No big deal, I don't need the light show.
I learned something, I hope this gets your card going. Let me know...
I borrowed a friends Netgear card and installed it via ndiswrapper. It says its sees the card but when I go to do a scan it cant find the card. I then noticed that during the boot process I get a message about irq 10 being disabled. In XP this is the irq the pcmcia card is on so Im not sure if thats the problem. I cant seem to find the card anywhere in any type of settings in KNoippix or Puppy. Where can I look to see if its infact even active?
Thanks
John
Run the command 'lspci -vv' ( without the quotes ) and look through the output for your ethernet card. Here is what mine looks like. It will tell you if it has an IRQ or not.
Code:
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter with Alert On LAN*
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 66 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at 41200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 1: I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
Region 2: Memory at 41100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
Heres where Im at now. I borrowed a friends Netgear card and loaded up the LiveCD version of Puppy 2.14. I ran the network wizzard and loaded up the driver - it loaded fine and gave the message that it sees 1 device. clicked on the eth0 button and was not connected which took me to another screen. I manually entered my settings and got a config sucessful, which I thought was it. I started Firefox and found I was not connected. Hit the connect icon and found I was disconnected. Went back to the config window and hit scan and got no networks detected. Went through the above all over and still disconnected. I did check and it does appear that my irq 10 is active, light is constantly on , on the wireless card.
Heres a copy of my lsmod:
Any thought( other than just throwing the damm computer away)
Thanks
John
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