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Old 06-11-2007, 12:49 PM   #1
mary_jayne
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My wireless card seems to be disabled!?!


Hi there,

I've been trying to get wireless internet working for about a week now with no success. I've downloaded the correct drivers, configured the card and I still had no luck.

So today I started looking a bit more closely at my hardware. I think the memory of my wirelesshttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=41 card may be disabled. In Yast admin I looked at "Hardware information". I can see my wireless card, under memory it says: "Mem :Active: No"

And also when I run lspci -v in my console it actually says the memory of the card is disabled. See below:

Quote:
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0420
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
Memory at e4010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Does anyone know anything about the memory of wireless cards?
Can anyone tell me how to enable it... can it be enabled?

mary
 
Old 06-11-2007, 12:55 PM   #2
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Lets try this without the mistakes!

Sorry about that, I tried to highlight the "disabled" in the the output and I deleted it by mistake!

Here is my Output from lspci -v:

Quote:
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0420
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
Memory at e4010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [Disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Does anyone know anything about the memory of wireless cards?
Can anyone tell me how to enable it... can it be enabled?

mary
 
Old 06-11-2007, 02:45 PM   #3
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Old 06-11-2007, 03:34 PM   #4
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I have already installed the madwifi rpm's and I have been through the configuration of the wireless card. It still doesn't work and it still says that the memory of my wireless card is disabled.

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