I am trying to setup a Marvell Yukon NIC on :
SimplyMEPIS 6.5 RC 1

lspci shows:

I have booted this system from a linux live cd and the network card works. When booting from Mepis(kernel=2.6.15-27-desktop64-smp) ifconfig shows only loopback device.

I found another forum that indicated that this card uses the 'marvell' module. So I tried:

lsmod then shows the driver loaded. But if I try

produces

What should I do to get this NIC working?

Go to kmenu, system, MEPIS, MEPIS network assistant. Go to the interface tab. Check all three boxes, hit apply, hit ok. That should do it. Might take 5 or so seconds. Or if you prefer konsole to get there then type mnetwork into konsole and hit enter.

If my first post doesn't do it then post what you get when you type lspci onto konsole. Also what you get when you type lsmod into konsole.

Well I gave up and installed SimplyMepis 6.0 i386 and the onboard nic works fine..

I am trying to setup the wnic now and I am having problems. I did a test install of Slackware 11(distro I know best) and I was able to get wnic working with ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant.

When I first booted into Mepis lsmod showed ndiswrapper was already loaded. So i did ndiswrapper -l which showed a bunch of different drivers loaded including the one in this laptop. However normally there should be a "hardware present", and there wasn't so I removed all drivers with
"ndiswrapper -e" and then resinstalled the windows inf with :

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

and then

ndiswrapper -l shows "hardware present" but...

iwconfig produces no wlan0 or similar.


How should I proceed?

I'm a brand, shiny new Linux user and I'm trying to use MEPIS as my first install. I have it installed, but I can't get the wireless adapter to work. I tried following the path you described (kmenu/system/MEPIS/MEPIS Network Assistant) you described, but when I click kmenu/system there's no MEPIS to select. I tried in both the user and root account names, but it never shows up. Is there something special I need to install? Thanks for any help.

Did you really run:
or is that a typo for:
???

Welcome to MEPIS.
Ok you must be using an older version of MEPIS. Which version are you talking about? 3.3.1-1, 3.4.3 or a MEPISliite cd? If I knew that I could help a bit more. But....
Try kmenu, system, system configurations, internet and network, network settings. That may get you there. Or typing mnetwork into konsole may get you to that page too. I use 6.5 final so that what I was referring to at first. You might try the 6.5 final too.

Now that I think about it you may have to go to konsole and type mnetwork in. That should get you to the MEPIS Network assistant. When you get there just fill in the first two pages then click the interface tab. Check all three boxes, hit apply and hit ok.
Or try 6.5 final. It's good.