Re: wifi & kernel 2.6.* kernel
On Saturday 17 July 2004 03:31, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:12:48 +0800
>
> John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> wrote:
> > Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > >I've been searching for my wifi modules, and they all seem to be geared
> > >towards the 2.4.* series of kernel's.
> > >
> > >doing an "apt-cache search wlan" shows wlan*2.4.*
> > >
> > >The card was "found' and identified in the net install, but I used the
> > >built-in lan card to install. will I need the source to build into
> > >2.6.3?
>
> <john's lspci output deleted>
>
> > Dolphin:~#
> >
> > This will serve to identify (better than the box it came in) your card.
> > Then, and only then, someone might be able to tell you which driver to
> > use.
>
> John, Thanks for this tip, and your past support in OS/2.
>
> sudo lspci -s 00:09.0 -v -v
> 0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
For this chip you want hostap. Although it gives you many capabilities beyond
simply being a wireless client, its good at that as well.
David (also an OS/2 old timer).
> chipset (rev 01) Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4105
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
> DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32, Cache
> Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: Memory at dfcff000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
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