Madwifi problems
All,
I need a place to start after a couple of hours of googling, so thanks
for reading this. I have a D-LINK DWL-G510 (Rev b.) wireless PCI card
and I'm trying to get Madwifi working with it as, from what I've been
seeing, it's recommended over the ndiswrapper. I'm using the kernel
source packages for madwifi-source and everything compiled fine in my
2.6.16.19 kernel. The following error is happening when I load the
ath_pci module:
ath_attach: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as
expected' (HAL status 3)
Here is my sources.list in case it's relevant. I post this as my
searching has shown that most people are using madwifi-ng, which I
haven't seen (I assume it's just a way of separating the new madwifi
from the old).
# Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
# All other packages
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
The MadWIFI wiki gave a solution that pointed to correcting a PCI
setting with the PCI bridge using the setpci command, but no luck after
I did that. There's some speculation that the driver is a little
broken too, but I can't confirm that. Does anyone out there have this
working? I'd happily downgrade my kernel if that's the problem.
Many thanks,
Dustin
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