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noviciado 02-14-2009 10:04 PM
EW-7128G PCI Wireless Card undetected in Slackware 12.2
 
Hello.

I am using an Edimax EW-7128G PCI Wireless Card in a Dell Dimension 4700 that is currently undetected running under Slackware 12.2. I am able to use the same NIC with fedora 10 however.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Here is the output of lspci -v:
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
        Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
        Memory behind bridge: dfd00000-dfefffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff
        Capabilities: [88] Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 0000
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [140] Root Complex Link <?>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: dfc00000-dfcfffff
        Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Gammagraphx, Inc. (or missing ID) Unknown device 0000
        Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
        Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
        Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at ff40 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
        Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
        I/O ports at ff20 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
        Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
        I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
        Memory behind bridge: dfb00000-dfbfffff
        Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: Gammagraphx, Inc. (or missing ID) Unknown device 0000

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
        I/O ports at e8c0 [size=64]
        Memory at dffffe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Memory at dffffd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
        Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
        Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
        Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        I/O ports at fe00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at fe10 [size=4]
        I/O ports at fe20 [size=8]
        I/O ports at fe30 [size=4]
        I/O ports at fea0 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at e8a0 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
        Kernel modules: i2c-i801

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0302
        Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        Memory at dfde0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at dfe00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
        Kernel modules: radeonfb

01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0303
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at dfdf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0181
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
        Memory at dfbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at ccc0 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: e100
        Kernel modules: e100

Didier Spaier 02-15-2009 04:00 PM
Hello Noviciado,

What makes you say the card is not detected, as according to lspci the driver e100 is in use ?

You can check that with 'lsmod|grep e100' and, would you get no result, try to load it though with "modprobe e100".

Also, please send output of 'ifconfig -a'.

PS You use a stock kernel, do you ?

But from your former thread I thought that issue was solved ???

noviciado 02-15-2009 05:05 PM
Quote:
What makes you say the card is not detected, as according to lspci the driver e100 is in use ?
Unless I'm missing something, e100 is in use by my ethernet connection, and not by the wireless card I said I was trying to use.
I don't see any wireless card being detected in the lspci output.

ifconfig only lists eth0 and lo, and no wlan0.

Quote:
But from your former thread I thought that issue was solved ???
That was a different issue, and I did resolve it -- thanks for your help there. I started a new thread for this new issue.

Didier Spaier 02-15-2009 05:17 PM
Sorry I should have read better :confused:

Unfortunately I have no clue.

noviciado 04-14-2009 01:23 AM
Almost there, still no connectivity.
I ended up going to the following link, downloading compat-wireless-2.6 and installing it:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
The wireless card was then detected upon reboot.

I'm looking here : http://www.slackbook.org/html/networ...-wireless.html
to configure the wireless. I edited rc.wireless.conf and put my 'essid' and 'key' into the generic section, rebooted, and could not ping out. I then tried iwconfig,

Code:
# iwconfig wlan0 essid "mynetwork"
# iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
but this not change anything.I also tried using different channels.
Code:
# ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:43:f2:60 
          inet addr:192.168.1.200  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:20ff:fe43:f260/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1980 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1708 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:175555 (171.4 KiB)  TX bytes:277741 (271.2 KiB)

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:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2192 (2.1 KiB)  TX bytes:2192 (2.1 KiB)

wlan0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:1f:1b:33:9b 
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1F-1F-1B-33-9B-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Any thoughts on what else I should try?

noviciado 04-14-2009 10:22 PM
dhcpcd horror...
I followed this post,
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/87018-post11.html
which meant:

Code:
# iwconfig wlan0 essid "mynetwork"
# iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
# dhcpcd wlan0
This didn't work, but definitely did something adverse. It froze the terminal with which I was ssh'd into the slackware machine, so I needed to hard reboot. When I try to ssh into it now, it takes about 25 seconds before it prompts me for my password. I deleted
/dhcpcd-wlan0.info and /dhcpcd-wlan0.cache in /etc/dhcpcd/, but this didn't resolve the problem. Anyone know how to fix this?


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