wireless PCI card

[Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu>]

Hello,

I'm trying to get a Hawking Tech. HWP54G-CA PCI wireless card working
with Debian Sarge.  I've successfully compiled and loaded the
ndiswrapper kernel modules.  Also, debian auto-magically loads the
prism54 and firmware_class modules.  But, it won't work.  I've
included below what I think is all the relevant information.  Any
ideas as to what I might try would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jason

jrennie@syrah:~$ /sbin/iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00   
          Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200  
          Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B   
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

jrennie@syrah:~$ lspci -v
[snip]
0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 17cf:0020
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 12
        Memory at cfff4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>
[snip]

jrennie@syrah:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF 
ndiswrapper           100852   0
input                   3872   0 (autoclean)
sis                    49120   0
sisfb                 233676   0 [sis]
fbcon-cfb32             3880   0 [sisfb]
fbcon-cfb8              3592   0 [sisfb]
fbcon-cfb16             4200   0 [sisfb]
apm                    10704   0 (autoclean)
openafs.mp            512664   2
af_packet              14408   1 (autoclean)
prism54                45932   0 (unused)
firmware_class          3980   0 [prism54]
usb-ohci               20136   0 (unused)
usbcore                65996   1 [ndiswrapper usb-ohci]
trident                31216   0 (unused)
soundcore               4420   2 [trident]
pcigame                 1544   0 [trident]
gameport                1692   0 [pcigame]
ac97_codec             13720   0 [trident]
ide-scsi               10192   0
scsi_mod              100788   1 [ide-scsi]
sis900                 14252   1
crc32                   2928   0 [sis900]
ide-cd                 31296   0
cdrom                  30112   0 [ide-cd]
rtc                     7112   0 (autoclean)
ext3                   68548   3 (autoclean)
jbd                    46104   3 (autoclean) [ext3]
sis5513                11568   1 (autoclean)
unix                   16816  10 (autoclean)

jrennie@syrah:~$ more /proc/pci 
[snip]
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    Network controller: Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1 (rev 1).
      IRQ 12.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=28.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfff4000 [0xcfff5fff].
[snip]

jrennie@syrah:~$ sudo ifup eth1
Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1.

jrennie@syrah:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
exiting.
Failed to bring up wlan0.

jrennie@syrah:~$ more /etc/network/interfaces 
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# The primary network interface
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up modprobe ndiswrapper
post-down rmmod ndiswrapper

jrennie@syrah:~$ ndiswrapper  -l
Installed ndis drivers:
wlancig driver present, hardware present