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Quasimojo
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 Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: Need a good NIC |
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I have an IBM A20M that I'm planning on putting Gentoo on. Trouble is, it's on-board NIC doesn't work and the only other one I have is an Airlink101 PCMCIA wireless cardbus adapter that doesn't provide a Linux driver. I've tried all of those included with the live CD to no avail.
Can anyone recommend a good, highly compatable and preferrably inexpensive cardbus adapter? I would prefer 802.11g, but if the price is right, wired would work. |
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96140
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Try a D-Link DWL-G650. Atheros chipset, 802.11b/g. Supports WEP, WPA, LEAP, etc. Works perfectly in Gentoo with both wpa_supplicant and iwconfig for encrypted wireless. Great range and transmit/receive power, too.
Not too expensive, either. I purchased mine from NewEgg for $45. Search the forums; you'll find tons of success stories with this card.  |
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/carlito
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Did you try ndiswrapper to set up your card?
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Quasimojo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| /carlito wrote: | | Did you try ndiswrapper to set up your card? |
I did look into that possibility, but found feedback from someone else reporting that card to not work with ndis. |
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frenkel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Quasimojo wrote: | | /carlito wrote: | | Did you try ndiswrapper to set up your card? |
I did look into that possibility, but found feedback from someone else reporting that card to not work with ndis. |
Try it yourself, it might just work. |
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/carlito
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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In that case i recommend any card with a ralink chipset.
The e-tech cards are quite cheap and feature the ralink 2500 chipset which are a breeze to install.
I really like the USR line of wireless networking (I have a wifi router of this brand) but i'm not sure if they have good driver support for linux...
Stay away from dlink (i've had bad experiences with this brand) and belkin (no native driver support)!!
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Quasimojo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| So far I'm hearing anything with the Atheros or Prism/Prism2 chipset. Any other recommendations? I'm stopping off on my way home from work to pick one up. |
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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I have a Netgear with an Atheros and it works quite well (besides some oddities in the last development of the madwifi-drivers, but that seems to be temporary).
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Quasimojo
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| frenkel wrote: | | Quasimojo wrote: | | /carlito wrote: | | Did you try ndiswrapper to set up your card? |
I did look into that possibility, but found feedback from someone else reporting that card to not work with ndis. |
Try it yourself, it might just work. |
Ok, I tried NDIS, and it didn't work. I was actually able to get the driver loaded, but when I ran modprobe, I got:
| Code: | | FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r6/ndiswrapper-1.8/driver/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) |
Well, dmesg didn't help me much....
| Code: | Linux version 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 (root@livecd) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 SMP Wed Jan 25 16:42:48 EST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e3c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ff0000 - 0000000003ffec00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ffec00 - 0000000004000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
63MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 16368
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 12272 pages, LIFO batch:3
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6bd0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x03ff631a
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM TP-A20M 0x06040000 0x00000000) @ 0x03ffeb65
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x03ffebd9
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM TP A20m 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 04000000 (gap: 04000000:fbf80000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda4
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (010c1000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)
Detected 548.897 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 59588k/65472k available (2917k kernel code, 5408k reserved, 1134k data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1081.34 BogoMIPS (lpj=540672)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0800)
CPU0: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 03
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 01
groups: 01
domain 1: span 01
groups: 01
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd94f, last bus=7
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PSER] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [PSIO] (on)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 9)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1000-0x103f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1040-0x104f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xfe00-0xfe0f has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x15e0-0x15ef has been reserved
Simple Boot Flag at 0x35 set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1138302633.966:0): initialized
inotify device minor=63
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (31 C)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
pnp: Device 00:0b activated.
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc, irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1c10-0x1c17, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1c18-0x1c1f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 11733120 sectors (6007 MB) w/384KiB Cache, CHS=12416/15/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.11 loaded.
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.0 [1014:0130]
Yenta: Using INTVAL to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0x00001000, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.1 [1014:0130]
Yenta: Using INTVAL to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1, mfunc 0x00001000, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000020
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Device 'i82365.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:83
[<c020b308>] kobject_cleanup+0x98/0xa0
[<c020b310>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10
[<c020bd65>] kref_put+0x45/0xb0
[<c020b33f>] kobject_put+0x1f/0x30
[<c020b33f>] kobject_put+0x1f/0x30
[<c020b310>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10
[<c0515f18>] init_i82365+0x1c8/0x1e0
[<c0214fa8>] pci_register_driver+0xa8/0xb0
[<c04f89fb>] do_initcalls+0x2b/0xc0
[<c01003b4>] init+0x94/0x1b0
[<c0100320>] init+0x0/0x1b0
[<c01014a5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
usbmon: debugs is not available
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001c20
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9rc2 (Thu Mar 24 10:33:39 2005 UTC).
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 256 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (511 buckets, 4088 max) - 220 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID SLPB PCI0 USB UART
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 136072k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event |
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Quasimojo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Just tried again, using the steps involved in that very informative ndiswrapper post on the forums. This time it loaded ndiswrapper *and* noted that the hardware was present. Last time it didn't pick up the hardware. However, same error on modprobe. 
The supported NIC's page on the Wiki lists this item, but I get the impression it's hit or miss with different distro's.
Ah, well. Back to searching for a good, Linux-friendly replacement. |
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Quasimojo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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One thing I noticed when recompiling the kernel was at the end of the process I saw more than a screen full of warning messages. The first one (first one visible that is - I believe there were more that scrolled off the screen) was:
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r6/ndiswrapper-1.8.driver/loader.o needs unknown symbol wrap_pnp_remove_pci_device
The following were several more of the same, all ending with:
...needs unknown symbol __udivdi3
...needs unknown symbol miniport_set_info
...needs unknown symbol miniport_query_info
...needs unknown symbol miniport_set_int
...needs unknown symbol miniport_query_int
...needs unknown symbol miniport_query_info_needed
...needs unknown symbol miniport_reset
...and involving objects: iw_ndis.o and hal.o.
If these mean anything to anyone, please let me know. I'd really like to get this NIC working. |
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