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Old 12-20-2004, 04:08 PM   #1
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Topcom (Atmel?) Skyr@cer PCMCIA, can't connect


It seems the card is up (see bottom), but can't connect. Can anybody please indicate where it stops? This is from messages log:

Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 kernel: wlan0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 kernel: wlan0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 kernel: wlan0: 802.11 address: 00:03:2f:1f:c3:b3
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 kernel: wlan0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x11000000, irq=11
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-260-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath_hal.o
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Symbol version prefix ''
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-260-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath_hal.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Module ath_hal loaded, with warnings
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-260-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wlan.o
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Module wlan loaded, with warnings
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-260-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath_pci.o
Dec 20 15:41:33 ft-lap1 insmod: Module ath_pci loaded, with warnings
Dec 20 15:41:34 ft-lap1 /etc/hotplug/pci.agent[1153]: writing pcmcia-1 to /var/run/hotplug/net
Dec 20 15:41:35 ft-lap1 /etc/hotplug/net.agent[1315]: Using HW description wlan-pcmcia-1
Dec 20 15:41:35 ft-lap1 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
Dec 20 15:41:35 ft-lap1 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.1
Dec 20 15:41:36 ft-lap1 smpppd[1299]: smpppd version 1.06 started
Dec 20 15:41:36 ft-lap1 kernel: es1968: clocking to 48000
Dec 20 15:41:37 ft-lap1 kernel: IPsec Security Association Database (SADB): initialized.
Dec 20 15:41:37 ft-lap1 kernel: IPsec Security Policy Database (SPD): initialized.
Dec 20 15:41:37 ft-lap1 kernel: IPsec PF_KEY V2: initialized
Dec 20 15:41:38 ft-lap1 kernel: IPv6 v0.8 (usagi-cvs/IPsec6 based StS) for NET4.0
Dec 20 15:41:38 ft-lap1 kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Dec 20 15:41:38 ft-lap1 sshd[1408]: Server listening on :: port 22.


And this is the result of 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:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6520 (6.3 Kb) TX bytes:6520 (6.3 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:2F:1F:C3:B3
inet6 addr: fe80::203:2fff:fe1f:c3b3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:221741 errors:9405602 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:30675
TX packets:450 errors:31 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:20141897 (19.2 Mb) TX bytes:228382 (223.0 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Memory:ccb06000-ccb16000
 
Old 12-21-2004, 09:24 AM   #2
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Well, it wasn't Atmel. It was Atheros. Supposed to work with ndiswrapper and madwifi. I just returned it and got another that at least works out of the box with my old win98 laptop (not SE).
 
  


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