Re: Howto setup USB wireless card
Kent West wrote:
I've got a new Sid box, with 2.4.20-686 kernel. It has a 3c905c
ethernet card, and a USB wireless D-Link DWL-120 "card".
The 3com card works fine (it's how I'm on the net now to send this
email).
I installed
ftp.debian.org/pool/main/l/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng_0.1.15-6_i386.deb
and then did a "modprobe prism2_usb", and now usbview shows the
dwl-120 as a prism2_usb device.
I modified /etc/modutils/ linux-wlan-ng and commented out the "alias
wlan0 prism2_pci" line and uncommented "alias wlan0 prism2_usb" and then
ran "depmod" (which generated an "unresolved symbols" error relating to
prism2_cs -- hopefully that won't affect me since I'm usb) followed by
an "update-modules" (which also generated the same error).
I then editted /etc/network/interfaces and added these two lines:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
Just for good measure I rebooted. Ooh; the machine locks up when trying
to load the prism2_usb module during the boot process. Bad. So I
unplugged the dwl-120 and rebooted (hard - ouch; thanks for ext3). Once
back up, I plugged the dwl-120 back in, and the modules seemed to load
fine (both p80211 and prism2_usb) automagically (via usbmgr and/or the
new hardware detection package "discover", I reckon).
Then I ran "/etc/init.d/networking restart", and got a "device not
found" and other such errors. The 3com still works fine, but no IP for
the dwl-120. When I looked at dmesg I got this:
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 2
hfa384x_docmd: hfa384x_docmd:ctlx failure=REQ_TIMEOUT
hfa384x_drvr_start: hfa384x_drvr_startcmd_initialize() failed, result=-5
prism2sta_ifstate: hfa384x_drvr_start() failed,result=-5
hfa384x_docmd: hfa384x_docmd:ctlx failure=REQ_TIMEOUT
hfa384x_drvr_start: hfa384x_drvr_startcmd_initialize() failed, result=-5
prism2sta_ifstate: hfa384x_drvr_start() failed,result=-5
So my question: is there still some bug in the dwl-120 driver(s), or
have I failed to configure something?
Thanks!
Kent
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