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apexofservice
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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: lspci recognizes wireless card--but interface is not there |
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Hello forum:
here's my lspci:
| Code: | # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
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So we can see that there's a wireless card there. Yet here's iwconfig:
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# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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eth0 is the wired connection, as can be seen from ifconfig:
| Code: | # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:3F:DB:2E:72
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:50551 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:74159231 (70.7 Mb) TX bytes:2195586 (2.0 Mb)
Interrupt:22 Base address:0xc800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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I've got wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant emerged. But I've got no idea how to get eth1 up and going. No idea where to start. Any help?
-apexofservice |
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Stupendoussteve
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| You need to install the Atheros drivers. I would suggest using net-wireless/madwifi-ng (and net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools). There is a driver in the kernel (ath5k) but it is still pretty new. |
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apexofservice
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| emerged net-tools/madwifi-ng but i still don't see any wireless interfaces. how do i take the next step |
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Stupendoussteve
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:36 am Post subject: |
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Should just need, as root:
If this works, you may want to add ath_pci to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
Also you will need to rebuild the module when you update the kernel, generally. If your wireless fails to start and the module isn't loading, try re-emerging madwifi-ng. |
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