Hi,

I've got a Sony VAIO GRT270P. It has an integrated PCI wireless card, a Lan Express 802.11b/g that other Linux users say they have got working with the Orinico drivers. It's switched on, it works under Windows, but no wlan card shows up under ifconfig.

I briefly had 9.1 installed a while ago, and the card did show up in ifconfig then. Surprisingly, 10.0's HardDrake does see a wireless card, although it thinks it's an Atheros, and it refuses to bind any driver module to it.


unname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.3-4mdksmp #1 SMP Tue Mar 2 06:45:06 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

HardDrake Information
Vendor: ‎Atheros Communications Inc.
Bus: ‎PCI
Bus identification: ‎168c:13:1468:406
Location on the bus: ‎0:7:0
Description: ‎AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter
Module: ‎unknown
Media class: ‎NETWORK_ETHERNET

Same problem on my Sony PCG-K23 using Mandrake 10.1... There has to be somebody out there that knows how to fix it!

My solution was to switch to SuSE. But WPA encryption still doesn't work. I am thinking about buying a well-supported PCMCIA card instead.

I made it work on my laptop. Currently I'm using Mandriva Linux LE 2005 edition. I'm new to Linux but first I updated the system with normal error corrections. Second I reinstalled the driver and this time it worked. Beside this I also enabled the Hotplugging feature both in the system and on the wlan since it makes it start quicker.

My only unsolved issue in this matter is that I have to start the network myself everytime I want to use it. And sometime it disconnects by it self but it work =)

QPQ --

Glad to hear of your success. My card is fully functional too now, under Gentoo Linux of all things. I am using madwifi for the driver, and wpa_supplicant for key management. But I too must start the interface manually every time I want to use it.

-ks

-ks

Exactly the same problem am I suffering under. Manual startup everytime with normal driver. Not madwifi...