Ok, here's the situation: I've moved recently, and the people I've moved in with use a wireless LAN to distribute the internet throughout the house. I was given a wireless PCMCIA card and adapter to be able to access the wifi signal from my tower. So, I slapped the Netgear MA301 adapter into the PCI slot, slid the trendnet TEW-226PC wireless card into that, and fired my tower up. Upon booting, SuSE 9.1 Pro recognizes and automatically configures the MA301 adapter as a wireless network device, complete with IP and all.

Problem is, nothing works.

The wireless card shows power, but no signal, and nothing I do changes the situation. SuSE does not even detect the card as a separate device (though should it??), and I'm not really sure how to continue. After googling and searching the forums, it seems like all the questions out there pertain to different problems.

lsmod shows me that SuSE has loaded a p80211 and prism2_plx modules to work with the adapter/card. lspci shows the ma301 card, but nothing else. When I boot, the kernel tries to initialize both lan devices (my previously used 10/100, and the new wireless interface) and fails. In runtime, ifconfig and iwconfig seem to do nothing (though I don't really know how to use them). Also during boot, if the wireless card is not inserted into the adapter, the kernel hangs at coldplug pci scan.

So, is the problem with my configuration? Is it just that something needs to be activated? Do I need additional drivers to make the card work? I've done some research and got a couple of drivers that are said to work with that card, but from what I can tell, that's all used for laptops with the PCMCIA built in. Should I go get a card that has better linux support? Should I just go get a one piece pci wifi card??

Oh, and I know the wireless card works; I threw it into a laptop here and it worked like a charm! Any help, advice, or even links to good howtos would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys very much!!

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Oh, and I'm running kernel 2.6.5 on a 64b athlon machine. asus k8v se dx mb with k8t800 chipset.
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Try this page http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...04/04/2/150224 mainly the section about adding this:

DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes'
DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes'

to your etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-wlan0 file.

You can go through Yast and change the default boot time for lan devices to speed up boot time, 10 seconds should work for most laptops/networks on eth0 and 15 for wlan0.

Well, so far no good. I added these lines to my ifcfg file, and nothing changed. It should be interesting to note that when I run an iwconfig, the only interfaces that turn up are lo and sit0. Does this mean that I have to configure something to make the wireless equipment work? I configured the hadware, let SuSE install it and choose a driver for it and all that, but it doesn't show up in my iwconfig. are there any more ideas out there?

chavez:/home/gchavez/Documents/Miscellaneous/wireless/rtl8180_1.5 # dmesg
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a console=tty0 desktop resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent)
Linux version 2.6.5-7.111.5-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Wed Nov 17 11:08:17 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff30000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff30000 - 000000001ff40000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff40000 - 000000001fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
No mptable found.
On node 0 totalpages: 130864
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126768 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x00000000000fa8b0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x02000409 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000001ff30000
ACPI: FADT (v001 A M I OEMFACP 0x02000409 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000001ff30200
ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x02000409 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000001ff30390
ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x02000409 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000001ff40040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0058 A0058001 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x0000000000000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0])
IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 1
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ f8000000 size 64 MB
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a console=tty0 desktop resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 16 (order 4: 256 bytes)
CKRM Initialization
...... Initializing ClassType<taskclass> ........
...... Initializing ClassType<socket_class> ........
CKRM Initialization done
time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz PIT timer.
time.c: Detected 2202.868 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 510016k/523456k available (2170k kernel code, 12652k reserved, 854k data, 172k init)
Calibrating delay loop... 4308.99 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ stepping 00
Using local APIC NMI watchdog using perfctr0
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 1-16, 1-17, 1-18, 1-19, 1-20, 1-21, 1-22, 1-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Detected 12.516 MHz APIC timer.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Looking for DSDT in initrd ...No customized DSDT found in initrd!
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-16 -> 0xa9 -> IRQ 16 Mode:1 Active:1)
00:00:01[A] -> 1-16 -> IRQ 16
IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-17 -> 0xb1 -> IRQ 17 Mode:1 Active:1)
00:00:01[B] -> 1-17 -> IRQ 17
IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-22 -> 0xb9 -> IRQ 22 Mode:1 Active:1)
00:00:11[C] -> 1-22 -> IRQ 22
IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-20 -> 0xc1 -> IRQ 20 Mode:1 Active:1)
00:00:0f[A] -> 1-20 -> IRQ 20
IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-21 -> 0xc9 -> IRQ 21 Mode:1 Active:1)
00:00:10[A] -> 1-21 -> IRQ 21
IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-18 -> 0xd1 -> IRQ 18 Mode:1 Active:1)
00:00:0b[C] -> 1-18 -> IRQ 18
IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-19 -> 0xd9 -> IRQ 19 Mode:1 Active:1)
00:00:0b[D] -> 1-19 -> IRQ 19
number of MP IRQ sources: 15.
number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................

IO APIC #1......
.... register #00: 01000000
....... : physical APIC id: 01
.... register #01: 00178003
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0003
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9
14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ19 -> 0:19
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ21 -> 0:21
IRQ22 -> 0:22
.................................... done.
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xffffff000002f000, size 16384k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=5
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Initial HugeTLB pages allocated: 0
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Initializing Cryptographic API
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 11 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 11 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 10 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 10 to 5
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 52139 bytes,<6>...found (1280x1024, 24562 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 147x55
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VIA8237SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
VIA8237SATA: chipset revision 128
VIA8237SATA: 100% native mode on irq 20
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: ST3200822AS, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0xe800-0xe807,0xe402 on irq 20
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hdeMA, hdfio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdgMA, hdhio
hde: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-232B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide2 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdg: SONY DVD RW DRU-710A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide3 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hde: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdg: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Resume Machine: resuming from /dev/hda1
Resuming from device hda1
Resume Machine: This is normal swap space
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.02 loaded.
ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Adding 1036152k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:42 extents:1
reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
ReiserFS: hda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda7: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hda7: journal params: device hda7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda7: checking transaction log (hda7)
ReiserFS: hda7: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: hda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda5: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hda5: journal params: device hda5, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda5: checking transaction log (hda5)
ReiserFS: hda5: Using r5 hash to sort names
subfs 0.9
p80211: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
prism2_plx: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
prism2plx_init: prism2_plx.o: 0.2.1-pre20 Loaded
prism2plx_init: dev_info is: prism2_plx
A PLX PCI/PCMCIA interface device found, phymem:0xfde00000, phyio=0xec00, irq:18, mem: 0xffffff0001751000
prism2sta_probe_plx: Prism2 PC card CIS is invalid.
prism2_plx: probe of 0000:00:0d.0 failed with error -5
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1203 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16] MMIO=[fda00000-fda007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 000000000000b400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb usb1: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.5-7.111.5-default uhci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.0
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 000000000000b800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb usb2: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.5-7.111.5-default uhci_hcd
usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.1
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 000000000000c000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb usb3: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.5-7.111.5-default uhci_hcd
usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.2
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io base 000000000000c400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
usb usb4: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.5-7.111.5-default uhci_hcd
usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.3
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e018000072cd08]
usb 1-1: Product: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: B16_b_02
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
usb 3-2: Product: USB Embedded Hub
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
hub 3-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-2:1.0: 1 port detected
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 21, pci mem ffffff000175f000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29
usb usb5: Product: EHCI Host Controller
usb usb5: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.5-7.111.5-default ehci_hcd
usb usb5: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.4
hub 3-2:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -71)
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
hub 3-2:1.0: hub_hub_status failed (err = -71)
hub 3-2:1.0: get_hub_status failed
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 3
usb 1-1: Product: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: B16_b_02
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
usb 3-2: Product: USB Embedded Hub
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
hub 3-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-2:1.0: 1 port detected
usb 3-2.1: new full speed USB device using address 4
usb 3-2.1: Product: USB Mass Storage Device
usb 3-2.1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: STFI Model: USB Flash Disk Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
sda: unknown partition table
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 4
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09d)
powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:589: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:589: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:589: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:589: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-7.111.5-default
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
st: Version 20040318, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
mtrr: 0xe8000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe8000000,0x1000000
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:728: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:728: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:728: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:728: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer
ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:728: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer
chavez:/home/gchavez/Documents/Miscellaneous/wireless/rtl8180_1.5 #








chavez:/home/gchavez/Documents/Miscellaneous/wireless/rtl8180_1.5 # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3188 (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b188
0000:00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0d.0 Network controller: Netgear 802.11b Wireless Adapter (MA301) (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149 (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800]
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800] (Secondary)
chavez:/home/gchavez/Documents/Miscellaneous/wireless/rtl8180_1.5 #




chavez:/home/gchavez/Documents/Miscellaneous/wireless/rtl8180_1.5 # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.





chavez:/home/gchavez/Documents/Miscellaneous/wireless/rtl8180_1.5 # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:432 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:432 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:33336 (32.5 Kb) TX bytes:33336 (32.5 Kb)







Thanks!!

Did you load the PCMCIA support modules?

I recognize this from my own attempts (in Debian).

You must have PCMCIA support loaded, even if this is a PCI adapter you are talking to.

If you do, and you get more optimistic messages from dmesg, you should edit the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file. (or the Suse equivalent)

jlinkels