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uiliewuilie
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 Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: SMC2802W v2, detected, configuration failed |
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I have a SMC2802W 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter.
When I boot from the live cd (install-X86-universal-2004.3-R1), the wireless network card is detected, and mounted at eth1 (eth0 is occupied by a network card currently not in use).
When I try to configure the card with net-setup, and choose to use DHCP I get a error message, as well when I choose manual configuration, and enter the correct data.
The error message is:
prism54:request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
I'm wondering what this means, and how to solve this.
Could anyone give me clue?
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UberLord
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Location: Blighty
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The prism54 drivers only work with v1 cards - which are now very hard to find. You may have better luck using ndiswrapper + windows drivers |
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uiliewuilie
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: can't figure out how to use ndiswrapper + windows drivers |
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I've tried to figure out how to install the ndiswrapper + windows drivers. But the instructions I found on the internet are too compex for me to understand. Probbably because this is the first time i'm installing a linux distribution.
I hope someone can help me out.
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Sequentious
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Location: London Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:22 am Post subject: |
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I have an SMC 2835w, so it is not exactly the same card, but there is some useful information we can get.
First of all, it is trying to load firmware which leads me to believe at least hotplug (might be handled by cardmgr directly, I cannot remember) is claiming some module for the card. Please run `lspci` and look for a line relating to your card. I get the following:
| Code: | | 0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01) |
Granted, yours will likely be different, but at least it will give us some leads. I consider ndiswrapper an extreme last resort. So much so that I bought a new pcmcia card rather than use the 'built-in' centrino wireless minipci (which now has a native driver, co-incidently)
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uiliewuilie
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject: Temporary solution |
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As a temporary solution I fired up my old (eth0) 10 mbit utp wired network card.
I've started the installation process, when finished i'll retry to get my SMC 2802w v2 working.
Any suggestions in the mean time are appriciated. |
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pinnockio
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
Just do
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emerge ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i your-driver.inf (from your install source)
(to chechk wether your card works: dmesg -c)
iwconfig wlan0 essid "your ssid" channel "your channel"
ifconfig wlan0 "192.168.2.2" broadcast "192.168.2.255" netmask "255.255.255.0" up
route add default gw "192.168.2.1" |
Replace 192.168.2.x in the above example with the ip's of you internal network. I got the smc card working  .
Kind regards,
A belgian Gentoo user |
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