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Problems over Problems with SMC2835W under Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Hello i am new to this forums and i browsed the whole internet to find a solution for my problem. I know that there are topics about the PCMCIA W-Lan Card SMC2835W, but i never found a solution.

First of all lets have a look on my Cards FULL description:

SMC2835W 2.4GHz 54Mbps Wireless CardBus Adapter

OK now my problems:

When i install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and put in my PCMCIA card, nothing happens, which is pretty normal i think because there are no drivers.

I looked for drivers and read lots of blogs and i heard something about Prism54. I went to the prism54.org site but there are a lot of drivers to click on and i dont know which one is for my card?

And i heard that there are 3 versions of the SMC2835W card. I dont know which version i have.

There are no drivers on the SMC Official site which very pisses me off.

And i am new to linux.. i had lots of linux versions on my pc but only for some days. Cause i dont need linux when i cant go into the internet -.-

So can someone help me here and tell me step by step what to do and what to download?

This would be very nice and i would be very happy if someone could help me.

Thanks in advice.

(Sorry for my bad english)

Looking over the SMC drivers page for your card ... it appears that part number:

99-012084-163 and -207 = v1
others are v2/3

v1 cards use the Prism54 driver.

Your kernel may be built with support already:

Code:

n600c linux # grep -i prism /usr/src/linux/.config

# Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support

CONFIG_PRISM54=m

Quote:

Originally Posted by dxqcanada

Code:

n600c linux # grep -i prism /usr/src/linux/.config

# Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support

CONFIG_PRISM54=m

My Part NO is different it is: 99-012084-338 it is SMC2835W EU what does the EU stand for which version is this?

And what to do with the code you posted above?

Probably way too late, but - I have the same card, the same distro, and had the same problem.

dxqcanada is right. If your card isn't working with the prism driver, then it is a different version using a different chipset.

First, blacklist the prism54 driver so it won't load every time you insert the card:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Add the prism54 driver.

My card has been working well and reliably on an old Thinkpad T21 using ndiswrapper. There are tons of wikis, support threads, and how-to's on setting up ndiswrapper - several very good ones on the ubuntu forum. Not hard to do, if I could manage it I'm sure you can as well. I can't do WPA level security for my wireless network, but the connectivity has been good.