Re: wireless PCI card
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Jason Rennie wrote:
> 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.
it's an intersil chipset ( a good thing )... which uses the hostap
( prism54 ) drivers if its those chipset, which it sounds like it is
using ndiswrapper would be like using elmers glue to hold 2 pc's together
> jrennie@syrah:~$ lspci -v
> [snip]
> 0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
since its detected ... you're in good shape
the problem is tthat you did nto configure your wireless network
variables
what is in your /etc/network/ directories
> jrennie@syrah:~$ lsmod
> Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
> ndiswrapper 100852 0
..
> prism54 45932 0 (unused)
don't use ( very bad) ndiwrapper ... its conflicting with your autodected
( good ) prism54 drivers
> jrennie@syrah:~$ sudo ifup eth1
> Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1.
and where is eth1 defined ??
> jrennie@syrah:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
and where is wlan0 defined ??
-- you cannot arbitrarily create device names
>
> 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
let is use the prism54 driver instead
c ya
alvin
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