Re: new debian user trouble with dwl-650 wireless network card

[Dan Elliott <dan_elliott@cox.net>]

Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 21:22 -0500, Dan Elliott wrote:
>
> > According to the pictures found at 
> > http://support.dlink.com/products/revision.asp my wireless card should 
> > be one of DWL-650 Rev A1-J3.
> >
> > Assuming I have surmised the correct Rev, dlink says my card uses the 
> > Prism chip set.  According to Andrew's post the card should work with 
> > the installation as is?  That has not been my experience.
> >
> > Is there a Linux command that could probe for the chip set of this 
> > device?  Understanding which device drivers are installed and/or loaded 
> > is something I know little about (especially with Debian).  Where do you 
> > suggest I begin looking for the source of my problem.
>
>
> Well, you will certainly need the wireless-tools package installed, and
> iwconfig might show you something, if your card has been detected when
> you plugged it in.

Apparently, the card is not being detected.  After inserting the card
(inserted after boot) iwconfig returns "no wireless extensions."

> What does 'cardctl info" or "cardctl status" show?

cardctl info returns

PRODID_1:"D"
PRODID_2:"Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card"
PRODID_3:"Version 01.02"
PRODID_4:""
MANFID=0156,0002
FUNCID=6

> What do you see from
> "lspci -v" regarding the card?  There are actually two sets of drivers
> for the Prism cards, one lot in the kernel, and the other lot in the
> "hostap" packages, so you might want to try those drivers and see if
> they work better for you.
>
> Do you get modules loaded when you plug the card in?  What does "lsmod"
> say before / after?

No change :-/

I'm currently updating to the latest testing branch.  How concerned 
should I be that the machine didn't seem to detect the device?

Thanks for the help thus far.  I will be careful to install the 
wireless-tools and probably anything else associated with wireless cards.

- dan