Running Fedora Core3 t2 Kernel-2.6.8-1.541
I'm trying to get a D-Link G650 wireless (laptop) adapter to be recognized and set it up. But finding the wireless stuff is different enough from normal networking stuff that I'm pretty lost here.
Watching dmesg I don't really see anything identifiable (by me anyway) as being about the wireless device.
Anyone here with wireless experience that can help?
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
Running Fedora Core3 t2 Kernel-2.6.8-1.541
I'm trying to get a D-Link G650 wireless (laptop) adapter to be recognized and set it up. But finding the wireless stuff is different enough from normal networking stuff that I'm pretty lost here.
Watching dmesg I don't really see anything identifiable (by me anyway) as being about the wireless device.
Anyone here with wireless experience that can help?
Perhaps you could post '/sbin/lspci' for this device
Satish
Satish Balay balay@fastmail.fm writes:
Anyone here with wireless experience that can help?
Perhaps you could post '/sbin/lspci' for this device
Good.. And I hope this isn't confusing things but I stuck in my old nic and cat5 so I could ssh in for the outputs.
However I booted it first with the wireless alone and captured both dmesg and lpsci to file before sticking in the other nic.
Running lspci again after the other NIC is inserted doesn't cause any changes anyway it turns out. A diff shows no change.
lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02) 00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c6) 00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 23) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Dmesg posted here: http://www.jtan.com/~reader/display_msg.shtml
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
Satish Balay balay@fastmail.fm writes:
Anyone here with wireless experience that can help?
Perhaps you could post '/sbin/lspci' for this device
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Well you'll have to install the madwifi driver (I believe this is discussed earlier)
- get source from cvs http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=82936
- patch it for kernel-2.6.8 changes http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1009293&gro...
- build & install the driver make make install
- Now load the driver and see if it works modprobe ath_pci
I had briefly tested this with rawhide (during the FC2T3 freeze) with kernel-541 - and it worked fine with my Atheros device.
Satish
Satish Balay balay@fastmail.fm writes:
Anyone here with wireless experience that can help?
Perhaps you could post '/sbin/lspci' for this device
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Well you'll have to install the madwifi driver (I believe this is discussed earlier)
[...] snipped nifty outline
Yes it was and .. egad.. I even read that about a week ago then promptly forgot all about it.
You're outline is really a nice little summary... makes it a lot simpler... thanks.