wlanctrl-ng: No Such Device

[VoiDeR]

I just did a fresh install of gentoo and for the fist time had it setup perfect on the first try. So i decieded id try to get my wifi card setup well that was 3 days ago and 118 google and gentoo forum searches ago. Now im useing the Netgear MA111 usb adapter i have installed the linux-wlan-ng drivers, setup wlan.conf wlanctl-<ssid>, and added the alias prism2_usb to module.conf.

Ok so now i reboot and get a messege that says something like wlanctl-ng: no such device and to make sure that the proper driver is being loaded. Lsmod says that prism2_usb is being used by p80211. Dmesg says that prism2_usb is assigned to the adapter. And i cant for the life of me figure out how to bring wlan0 up. I had it working under PHLAk linux but i cant remember how i did it. PLEASE PLEASE can some one help me. I dont know where to go from here.

Thanks
VoiDeR

[VoiDeR]

Ive been doing more searching and i still cant fix this. Could some one tell me what exactly wlanctl-ng does or what its looking for to bring up wlan0.
Or Does anyone have a pci card for sale that you yourself have gotten to work.

VoiDeR

[Henk]

I have the same problem. My desktop has a WUSB11 and kernel 2.4.22 worked fine with prism2_usb (even got 128bit WEP working).

Just upgraded kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.6.3 (gentoo-dev-sources).
Configured the kernel for usb (and OHCI) and wireless support as modules and without pcmcia support (its a desktop).

# lspci -v |grep USB gives
---
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
---

compiled linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20, which is the latest and supposed to work under 2.6 kernels.
Added "alias wlan0 prism2_usb" to /etc/modules.d/aliases and ran "modules-update"

# reboot (just in case...)
# dmesg (listing only errors)
APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
drivers/usb/core/config.c: invalid interface number (1/1)
usb 1-1: can't read configurations, error -22
#

# modprobe prism2_usb
# lsmod |grep prism2
prism2_usb 75556 0
p8021 31312 1 prism2_usb
usbcore 110108 6 prism2_usb,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
#

# dmesg
prism2_usb: no version for "p80211netdev_rx" found: kernel tainted.
prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.1-pre20 Loaded
prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver prism2_usb
#

# wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng: No such device
#

I must be overlooking something, but have no idea what. I don't trust the USB part, but don't know how to further check if its okay.

Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Henk

[d3vr0n]

I'm getting the same stuff, only I've got a prism2.5 based pci card.

It's the D-Link DWL 520.

If I load the prism2_pci module, wlan0 will show up, but I still get messages saying the device doesn't exist. I too have had no luck really on the forums and I've googled every query I can muster.

I've heard a couple people say they have my card model working using the kernel modules in 2.6.

Henk, are you sure that package of linux-wlan-ng is a stable release for 2.6? I don't think it is, but I could be wrong.

I have a feeling that the next release of linux-wlan-ng will (hopefully) make things all better. Any info on this topic will be appreciated.
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[Henk]

No the linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre20 is not a stable release, it is the latest.

I read somewhere on these forums that there is no stable release for the 2.6 kernel yet and the best bet was trying the dev package.
I know for sure that the portage version doesn't work, because I tried that first.

[mpn]

This person's entry and the ones near it about the same subject will probably be helpful to the prism2_usb users in 2.6:

http://www.francesc.net/post/1/31