Re: Wireless card driver bug

[Gökşin Akdeniz]

Hi Maximiliano

10.09.2022 19:46 tarihinde Maximiliano Estudies yazdı:



I want to use the reportbug feature but I don't know which package I
should enter. Anyone else having similar issues?
My system settings: Linux version 5.18.0-4-amd64
(debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-5) 11.3.0, GNU
ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.38.90.20220713) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
Debian 5.18.16-1 (2022-08-10)



The kernel running is from backports, I assume.

Kernels from backports may function different than release packages. You 
can test whether it is a kerl bug or not, with installing linux-image 
5.10.0-18 and firmware packages.


If everything works fine with 5.10.8-18, it may be kernel bug, and 
report it with all information you can provide and package info.


I had similar issuse with Intel HD graphics card in which backports 
kernel packages ended with a blank screen and reverting to a main repo 
kernel made problems go away.


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Re: Wireless card driver bug

[Georgi Naplatanov]

On 9/10/22 19:46, Maximiliano Estudies wrote:

Hi,

I seem to have hit a bug with the wireless card driver of my laptop.
This happened twice already, my laptop became unresponsive and I
couldn't issue any sudo commands. After hard rebooting the laptop I
see this entries in the syslog:

Sep 10 14:51:50 user-thinkpad kernel: mt7921e :03:00.0: driver own failed
Sep 10 14:51:51 user-thinkpad kernel: mt7921e :03:00.0: driver own failed
Sep 10 14:51:51 user-thinkpad kernel: mt7921e :03:00.0: chip reset
Sep 10 14:51:53 user-thinkpad kernel: mt7921e :03:00.0: driver own failed

This is my network card:
user@user-thinkpad:~$ lspci | grep -i mt7921
03:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express
Wireless Network Adapter

after that the kernel seems unable to get cpu time:

Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: [ cut here ]
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 16958 at
kernel/kthread.c:659 kthread_park+0x7f/0x90
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Modules linked in: nf_tables
libcrc32c nfnetlink ctr ccm rfcomm cmac algif_hash algif_skcipher
af_alg bnep btusb btrtl btbcm btintel btmtk bluetooth
jitterentropy_rng drbg >
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  sp5100_tco watchdog soundcore
roles k10temp rfkill typec ac serial_multi_instantiate evdev
acpi_cpufreq ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler msr parport_pc ppdev lp
parport fuse c>
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: CPU: 15 PID: 16958 Comm:
kworker/u32:11 Not tainted 5.18.0-4-amd64 #1  Debian 5.18.16-1
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Hardware name: LENOVO
20UHCTO1WW/20UHCTO1WW, BIOS R1CET67W(1.36 ) 10/20/2021
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Workqueue: mt76
mt7921_mac_reset_work [mt7921_common]
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RIP: 0010:kthread_park+0x7f/0x90
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Code: 00 48 85 c0 74 2d 31 c0 5b
5d e9 dc 45 b4 00 0f 0b 48 8b 9d 68 0a 00 00 a8 04 74 ae 0f 0b b8 da
ff ff ff 5b 5d e9 c1 45 b4 00 <0f> 0b b8 f0 ff ff ff eb d5 0f 0b eb
d1>
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RSP: 0018:b38848677e00
EFLAGS: 00010202
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RAX: 0004 RBX:
911b51d35c80 RCX: 
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 16958 at
kernel/kthread.c:659 kthread_park+0x7f/0x90
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Modules linked in: nf_tables
libcrc32c nfnetlink ctr ccm rfcomm cmac algif_hash algif_skcipher
af_alg bnep btusb btrtl btbcm btintel btmtk bluetooth
jitterentropy_rng drbg >
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  sp5100_tco watchdog soundcore
roles k10temp rfkill typec ac serial_multi_instantiate evdev
acpi_cpufreq ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler msr parport_pc ppdev lp
parport fuse c>
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: CPU: 15 PID: 16958 Comm:
kworker/u32:11 Not tainted 5.18.0-4-amd64 #1  Debian 5.18.16-1
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Hardware name: LENOVO
20UHCTO1WW/20UHCTO1WW, BIOS R1CET67W(1.36 ) 10/20/2021
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Workqueue: mt76
mt7921_mac_reset_work [mt7921_common]
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RIP: 0010:kthread_park+0x7f/0x90
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Code: 00 48 85 c0 74 2d 31 c0 5b
5d e9 dc 45 b4 00 0f 0b 48 8b 9d 68 0a 00 00 a8 04 74 ae 0f 0b b8 da
ff ff ff 5b 5d e9 c1 45 b4 00 <0f> 0b b8 f0 ff ff ff eb d5 0f 0b eb
d1>
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RSP: 0018:b38848677e00
EFLAGS: 00010202
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RAX: 0004 RBX:
911b51d35c80 RCX: 
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RDX: 0001 RSI:
0003 RDI: 911b53608000
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: RBP: 911b53608000 R08:
911b4b312460 R09: b38848677db0
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: R10: b38848677b10 R11:
838d1528 R12: 911b4b3108c0
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: R13: 911b4b3120a0 R14:
911b4b3185d0 R15: 911b4b3123f0
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: FS:  ()
GS:911e3fbc() knlGS:
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: CS:  0010 DS:  ES:  CR0:
80050033
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: CR2: 7f45dee27000 CR3:
00020b61 CR4: 00350ee0
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  mt7921e_mac_reset+0x9e/0x2d0 [mt7921e]
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:
mt7921_mac_reset_work+0x9f/0x14a [mt7921_common]
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  process_one_work+0x1e5/0x3b0
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  ? rescuer_thread+0x390/0x390
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  worker_thread+0x50/0x3a0
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  ? rescuer_thread+0x390/0x390
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  kthread+0xe8/0x110
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
Sep 10 14:51:55 user-thinkpad kernel:  ret_from_for

Re: Wireless card on New users computer

[Marc Stephan Nkouly]

Greetings
Just to confirm my wifi card is now working
I have search for the package "firmware-iwlwifi" using the browser and
found the page https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi from there I had just
followed the instructions. I also admit that I made use of the text editor
"nano" to edit the list source.
As much as am usually afraid of the CLI I start enjoying it.
Are they any resources anyone can share for me to learn more about it and
most of all harness its power?

Thanks

Marc Stephan Nkouly
Digital Consultant
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 3:14 PM  wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote:
> > Sorry for not giving enough details initially.
>
> No worries.
>
> > My laptop is LENOVO IDEA PAD 300
> > INTEL PROCESSOR of 64 Bits with 4 G Ram & 500 HDD
> > Is true I had installed UBUNTU 18.04 But didn't appreciate it's sluginesh
> > Ànd now am running DEBIAN 9 with GNOME 3 Desktop environment.
> > Is true while doing the installation I saw a warning message that my
> > Wireless card require a non free driver with bthe name " iw l
> wifi-3160-17 "
>
> Thanks for the details.
>
> I see. This is actually the info needed here (actually the driver is
> probably
> called "iwlwifi-3160-17", see below).
>
> > But I didn't had the disc with it as the system asked me to insert it.
> > I have done my installation using NET INSTALL and got all the packages
> from
> > the Wired connection.
>
> Asking "apt-file" (this is a very useful command, which is found in a
> package with the same name):
>
>   tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search iwlwifi-3160
>   firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode
>   firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-14.ucode
>   firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-16.ucode
>   firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode
>   firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode
>
> (Apt-file searches for packages containing a file with that name) reveals
> that iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode is contained in a package named
> "firmware-iwlwifi"
> (the suffix .ucode suggests that those are "microcode files", i.e. firmware
> to be loaded onto the processor embedded in your wifi hardware.
>
> So installing the package "firmware-iwlwifi" should get you going.
>
> Note that the package itself is in the non-free repository (hardware
> vendors
> sometimes distribute non-free software and don't document their hardware
> in a way that would allow us to write software for it, alas). So possibly
> you would have to enable the non-free repository. Don't hesitate to ask
> if you are unsure.
>
> > I also admit that am a beginners and don't feel comfortable enough to
> edit
> > files using the command line. Nevertheless am here because I want to
> learn.
> > Am also attaching what I had snap during the installation.
>
> Don't worry. We all have things to learn -- actually that is part of the
> fun.
>
> Cheers
> -- tomás
>

Re: Wireless card on New users computer

[tomas]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote:
> Sorry for not giving enough details initially.

No worries.

> My laptop is LENOVO IDEA PAD 300
> INTEL PROCESSOR of 64 Bits with 4 G Ram & 500 HDD
> Is true I had installed UBUNTU 18.04 But didn't appreciate it's sluginesh
> Ànd now am running DEBIAN 9 with GNOME 3 Desktop environment.
> Is true while doing the installation I saw a warning message that my
> Wireless card require a non free driver with bthe name " iw l wifi-3160-17 "

Thanks for the details.

I see. This is actually the info needed here (actually the driver is probably
called "iwlwifi-3160-17", see below).

> But I didn't had the disc with it as the system asked me to insert it.
> I have done my installation using NET INSTALL and got all the packages from
> the Wired connection.

Asking "apt-file" (this is a very useful command, which is found in a
package with the same name):

  tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search iwlwifi-3160
  firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode
  firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-14.ucode
  firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-16.ucode
  firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode
  firmware-iwlwifi: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode

(Apt-file searches for packages containing a file with that name) reveals
that iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode is contained in a package named "firmware-iwlwifi"
(the suffix .ucode suggests that those are "microcode files", i.e. firmware
to be loaded onto the processor embedded in your wifi hardware.

So installing the package "firmware-iwlwifi" should get you going.

Note that the package itself is in the non-free repository (hardware vendors
sometimes distribute non-free software and don't document their hardware
in a way that would allow us to write software for it, alas). So possibly
you would have to enable the non-free repository. Don't hesitate to ask
if you are unsure.

> I also admit that am a beginners and don't feel comfortable enough to edit
> files using the command line. Nevertheless am here because I want to learn.
> Am also attaching what I had snap during the installation.

Don't worry. We all have things to learn -- actually that is part of the
fun.

Cheers
-- tomás


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Re: Wireless card on New users computer

[tomas]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:24:52AM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote:
> Greetings
> Greetings
> Am writing from Cameroon and am a FOSS enthusiast.
> I wish to receive assistance for me t install the wireless drivers of my
> laptop.

Apart from Dan's (which is good advice, anyway), to be able to help you,
people here at least need to know:

 - do you already have installed some GNU/Linux distribution on your
   laptop? If yes, we could find out more about your wireless
   hardware, and what would be necessary to get it running.

 - Which distribution you have installed/want to install? (I'm assuming
   it is some Debian or one of its derivatives -- after all, you are
   posing your questions in a Debian mailing list).

 - What kind of laptop you have (brand, model number, etc.)

Cheers... and keep on hacking :-)

-- tomás


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Re: Wireless card on New users computer

[Dan Ritter]

Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote: 
> Greetings
> Greetings
> Am writing from Cameroon and am a FOSS enthusiast.
> I wish to receive assistance for me t install the wireless drivers of my
> laptop.
> I also admit being a complete beginner and I wonder in case there's a
> self-learning program I can follow to have my feet wet with the system?
> My goals are to be deploying hybrid cloud solutions (software that can be
> installed on a server with the internet ).

You may wish to read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

which is a guide on how to ask questions in a way which will get
the best answers.

-dsr-

Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

[S4mmael]

> I too have an elderly Thinkpad (R34) and it does pretty much the same thing.
I'm wondering is
> something like ndiswrapper ??

> https://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper 
> :) Ric

Hello Ric,

Thanks, great idea. Perhaps, it could work as a last resort. But since
native driver for this wireless chipset exists I'd rather try to
understand what's wrong with it in order to make it work out of the
box.



2014-08-06 10:30 GMT+04:00 S4mmael :

> >Which jessie kernel are you running?
> >
> ># find /lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
> >/lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko
> >
> ># find /lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
> >/lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko
> >
> >Can you modprobe this driver?
>
>
> Tom, thank you for your contribution.
>
> I'm on the lattest standard Jessie kernel, 3.14-something. Ubuntu, by the 
> way, uses 3.13.
> rtl8188ee.ko is available. I can easily modprobe it and see it in lsmod, yet 
> it does not help since there is no wireless card in the output of lspci -nn, 
> so kernel does not "know" the device exists.
>
>
>
> 2014-08-05 14:39 GMT+04:00 S4mmael :
>
> Darac, thanks for your answer.
>>
>> firmware-realtek,firmware-linux-free, and firmware-linux-nonfree have
>> been installed. Unfortunately, it's useless since Debian does not recognize
>> the device at all.
>>
>>
>> Somehow I need to find a way to make system understand that PCI device
>> 02:00.0 is a wireless card regardless of the header class. In this case
>> there should not be any problem with the driver, I guess.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-08-05 14:17 GMT+04:00 Darac Marjal :
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:18:48AM +0400, S4mmael wrote:
>>> >Hello guys,
>>> >
>>> >I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop.
>>> It
>>> >works perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in
>>> Debian
>>> >Jessie.
>>> >
>>> >Here is what a managed to find.
>>> >
>>> >In Ubuntu it looks like that:
>>> >root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
>>> >[0.986323] pci :02:00.0: [10ec:8179] type 00 class 0x028000
>>> >[0.986347] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x2000-0x20ff]
>>> >[0.986383] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem
>>> 0x9070-0x90703fff
>>> >64bit]
>>> >[0.986486] pci :02:00.0: supports D1 D2
>>> >[0.986490] pci :02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
>>> D3cold
>>> >[0.986542] pci :02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
>>> >
>>> >root@ubuntu:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v
>>> >02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>>> RTL8188EE
>>> >Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
>>> >Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197d
>>> >Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>>> >I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
>>> >Memory at 9070 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>> >Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>>> >Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>>> >Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>>> >Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>>> >Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01
>>> >Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
>>> >Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee
>>>
>>> This being a Realtek device, you may need firmware to enable all its
>>> features. Try installing the firmware-realtek package.
>>>
>>>
>>
>

Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

[S4mmael]

>Which jessie kernel are you running?
>
># find /lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
>/lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko
>
># find /lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
>/lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko
>
>Can you modprobe this driver?


Tom, thank you for your contribution.

I'm on the lattest standard Jessie kernel, 3.14-something. Ubuntu, by
the way, uses 3.13.
rtl8188ee.ko is available. I can easily modprobe it and see it in
lsmod, yet it does not help since there is no wireless card in the
output of lspci -nn, so kernel does not "know" the device exists.



2014-08-05 14:39 GMT+04:00 S4mmael :

> Darac, thanks for your answer.
>
> firmware-realtek,firmware-linux-free, and firmware-linux-nonfree have been
> installed. Unfortunately, it's useless since Debian does not recognize the
> device at all.
>
>
> Somehow I need to find a way to make system understand that PCI device
> 02:00.0 is a wireless card regardless of the header class. In this case
> there should not be any problem with the driver, I guess.
>
>
>
>
> 2014-08-05 14:17 GMT+04:00 Darac Marjal :
>
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:18:48AM +0400, S4mmael wrote:
>> >Hello guys,
>> >
>> >I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop.
>> It
>> >works perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in
>> Debian
>> >Jessie.
>> >
>> >Here is what a managed to find.
>> >
>> >In Ubuntu it looks like that:
>> >root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
>> >[0.986323] pci :02:00.0: [10ec:8179] type 00 class 0x028000
>> >[0.986347] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x2000-0x20ff]
>> >[0.986383] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x9070-0x90703fff
>> >64bit]
>> >[0.986486] pci :02:00.0: supports D1 D2
>> >[0.986490] pci :02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
>> D3cold
>> >[0.986542] pci :02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
>> >
>> >root@ubuntu:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v
>> >02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE
>> >Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
>> >Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197d
>> >Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>> >I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
>> >Memory at 9070 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>> >Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>> >Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>> >Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>> >Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>> >Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01
>> >Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
>> >Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee
>>
>> This being a Realtek device, you may need firmware to enable all its
>> features. Try installing the firmware-realtek package.
>>
>>
>

Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On 08/05/2014 09:14 AM, Tom H wrote:

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:18 AM, S4mmael  wrote:


I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop. It works
perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in Debian Jessie.

Here is what a managed to find.

In Ubuntu it looks like that:

root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
[0.986323] pci :02:00.0: [10ec:8179] type 00 class 0x028000
[0.986347] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x2000-0x20ff]
[0.986383] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x9070-0x90703fff 64bit]
[0.986486] pci :02:00.0: supports D1 D2
[0.986490] pci :02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
[0.986542] pci :02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI

root@ubuntu:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE
Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197d
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
 I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
 Memory at 9070 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
 Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
 Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01
 Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
 Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee

Whereas in Jessie it looks like that:

root@debian:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
[1.109622] pci :02:00.0: [eaea:eaea] type 6a class 0xeaeaea
[1.109628] pci :02:00.0: unknown header type 6a, ignoring device

root@debian:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v -H1
02:00.0 Class eaea: Device eaea:eaea (rev ea) (prog-if ea)
 !!! Unknown header type 6a

It's only available in the output of lspci with -H1 option.

I'm aware that header type 6a is incorrect, but is there any workaround or
something? How do I make the card work in Debian? It seems to be really
interesting to find out how Ubuntu does that and use the same technique in
Debian.


Which jessie kernel are you running?

# find /lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko

# find /lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko

Can you modprobe this driver?


I too have an elderly Thinkpad (R34) and it does pretty much the same 
thing. I'm wondering is something like ndiswrapper ??

https://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper:) Ric



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Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

[Tom H]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:18 AM, S4mmael  wrote:
>
> I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop. It works
> perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in Debian Jessie.
>
> Here is what a managed to find.
>
> In Ubuntu it looks like that:
>
> root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
> [0.986323] pci :02:00.0: [10ec:8179] type 00 class 0x028000
> [0.986347] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x2000-0x20ff]
> [0.986383] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x9070-0x90703fff 64bit]
> [0.986486] pci :02:00.0: supports D1 D2
> [0.986490] pci :02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
> [0.986542] pci :02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
>
> root@ubuntu:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE
> Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197d
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
> Memory at 9070 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01
> Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
> Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee
>
> Whereas in Jessie it looks like that:
>
> root@debian:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
> [1.109622] pci :02:00.0: [eaea:eaea] type 6a class 0xeaeaea
> [1.109628] pci :02:00.0: unknown header type 6a, ignoring device
>
> root@debian:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v -H1
> 02:00.0 Class eaea: Device eaea:eaea (rev ea) (prog-if ea)
> !!! Unknown header type 6a
>
> It's only available in the output of lspci with -H1 option.
>
> I'm aware that header type 6a is incorrect, but is there any workaround or
> something? How do I make the card work in Debian? It seems to be really
> interesting to find out how Ubuntu does that and use the same technique in
> Debian.

Which jessie kernel are you running?

# find /lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko

# find /lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64 -name rtl8188ee.ko
/lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko

Can you modprobe this driver?


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Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

[S4mmael]

Darac, thanks for your answer.

firmware-realtek,firmware-linux-free, and firmware-linux-nonfree have been
installed. Unfortunately, it's useless since Debian does not recognize the
device at all.


Somehow I need to find a way to make system understand that PCI device
02:00.0 is a wireless card regardless of the header class. In this case
there should not be any problem with the driver, I guess.




2014-08-05 14:17 GMT+04:00 Darac Marjal :

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:18:48AM +0400, S4mmael wrote:
> >Hello guys,
> >
> >I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop. It
> >works perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in Debian
> >Jessie.
> >
> >Here is what a managed to find.
> >
> >In Ubuntu it looks like that:
> >root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
> >[0.986323] pci :02:00.0: [10ec:8179] type 00 class 0x028000
> >[0.986347] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x2000-0x20ff]
> >[0.986383] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x9070-0x90703fff
> >64bit]
> >[0.986486] pci :02:00.0: supports D1 D2
> >[0.986490] pci :02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
> D3cold
> >[0.986542] pci :02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
> >
> >root@ubuntu:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v
> >02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE
> >Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
> >Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197d
> >Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> >I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
> >Memory at 9070 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> >Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
> >Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> >Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> >Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> >Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01
> >Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
> >Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee
>
> This being a Realtek device, you may need firmware to enable all its
> features. Try installing the firmware-realtek package.
>
>

Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

[Darac Marjal]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:18:48AM +0400, S4mmael wrote:
>Hello guys,
> 
>I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop. It
>works perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in Debian
>Jessie.
> 
>Here is what a managed to find.
> 
>In Ubuntu it looks like that:
>root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | grep 02:00.0
>[    0.986323] pci :02:00.0: [10ec:8179] type 00 class 0x028000
>[    0.986347] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x2000-0x20ff]
>[    0.986383] pci :02:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x9070-0x90703fff
>64bit]
>[    0.986486] pci :02:00.0: supports D1 D2
>[    0.986490] pci :02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
>[    0.986542] pci :02:00.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
> 
>root@ubuntu:~# lspci -s 02:00.0 -v
>02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE
>Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
>    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197d
>    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>    I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
>    Memory at 9070 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>    Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>    Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>    Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01
>    Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
>    Kernel driver in use: rtl8188ee

This being a Realtek device, you may need firmware to enable all its
features. Try installing the firmware-realtek package.



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Re: Wireless card not showing up

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Sebastian Gunther wrote:

> * Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29.09.08 18:28]:
>
> [WiFi Problem]
>
> Please submit the results of the following commands:
>
> # uname -a
>
> # lspci
>
> # ifconfig
>
> # iwconfig
>
> Then we know a little more about your hardware.

I seem to hvae fixed it.

I cleaned up some old repositories and then rebooted, and noticed that the card 
DID show up in the lspci list (though it hadnt before, im sure of it). It still
wasnt registering anywhere, but i realised that i was using an outdated
version of madwifi that didnt correspond to my current kernel. I recompiled
this and things are working now.

Sorry for the confusion.

Jen


  


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Re: Wireless card not showing up

[Sebastian Günther]

* Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29.09.08 18:28]:

[WiFi Problem]

Please submit the results of the following commands:

# uname -a

# lspci

# ifconfig

# iwconfig

Then we know a little more about your hardware.

HTH
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Re: Wireless card not showing up

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu:
> > Hi.
> >
> > This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know
> where to start.
> >
> > I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally
> plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only
> the wired network is showing up 
> > in my networking tools, even though the machine does
> support WiFi.
> >
> > I rebooted it and i still only have my Ethernet card
> showing up. And when i look over the output of dmesg, theres
> nothing at all there for my wireless
> > card, at least nothing i can see.

[etc.]
 
> Is there a switch or button to turn the wireless card
> on/off? Is it on?

Yes there is a switch, and its definitely on. I thought that might be it and 
switched it off and on and its on. At least, its in a clearly 
physically different position than "off", it clicks into place.

I expected that even if switched off it would show up in dmesg though.

Jen


  


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Re: Wireless card not showing up

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu:
> Hi.
>
> This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start.
>
> I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet 
> port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up 
> in my networking tools, even though the machine does support WiFi.
>
> I rebooted it and i still only have my Ethernet card showing up. And when i 
> look over the output of dmesg, theres nothing at all there for my wireless
> card, at least nothing i can see.
>
> Im absolutely sure theres a wireless card here; theres even an entry in the 
> Network Manager Editor for an interface i sometimes use.
>
> Because its not showing up in dmesg i wonder if its a hardware rather than 
> driver problem, but i thought someone hear might have an idea of where to
> start looking. I know the machine has never been dropped or damaged.
>   

Is there a switch or button to turn the wireless card on/off? Is it on?


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Re: Wireless card trying to attach to other access points

[Cheryl Homiak]

Sorry, because of the problem I'm writing about among other 
things, I don't have the previousw posts of which to include 
segments.


Because my prism2.5 onboard card on my thinkpad t23 was not 
working, I inserted my pcmcia linksys card. It actually does 
connect and works but is only working at extremely slow 
speeds--we're talking about bytes and single-digit K/s here!!! 
Probably no supprise considering what else is loaded. I had used 
the linksys on another thinkpad t23 so I knew to use madwifi and 
load ath_pci. Here are what I think are the relevant outputs. Is 
there any way to get rid of all of this except the ath0 and eth0 
interfaces?


Tia.

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# allow-hotplug eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid safelyhome
wireless-key 7A35-3330-3931-5152-6132-374F-57


iwconfig:
eth1  IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"safelyhome?  Nickname:""
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:24:9E:92:D5
  Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
  Retry short limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:off
  Power Management:off

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"safelyhome?  Nickname:""
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:24:9E:92:D5
  Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
  Retry short limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:off
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=51/70  Signal level=-47 dBm  Noise level=-99 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:8  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:38   Missed beacon:0

ath0  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"safelyhome"  Nickname:""
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:24:9E:92:D5
  Bit Rate:24 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
  Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:7A35-3330-3931-5152-6132-374F-57   Security 
mode:restricted
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality=56/70  Signal level=-39 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
  Rx invalid nwid:823  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ifconfig:
ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:46:17:96:2b
  inet addr:10.0.1.6  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
  RX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:22246 (21.7 KiB)  TX bytes:5007 (4.8 KiB)

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:8a:2b:68:1c
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth1  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-20-E0-8E-E6-92-77-6C-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:3396 (3.3 KiB)
  Interrupt:11

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-13-46-17-96-2B-77-6C-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:8904 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:875
  TX packets:332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
  RX bytes:974984 (952.1 KiB)  TX bytes:20501 (20.0 KiB)
  Interrupt:11

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:e0:8e:e6:92
  inet6 addr: fe80::220:e0ff:fe8e:e692/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:3396 (3.3 KiB)
  Interrupt:11

lspci -knn (relevant parts)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus 
Controller [104c:ac51]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
02:00.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus 
Controller [104c:ac51]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
02:0

Re: Wireless card trying to attach to other access points

[Celejar]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:44:11 -0500 (CDT)
Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I am running debian lenny beta 2 on a thinkpad t23 laptop with a prism 2.5 
> onboard card. My problem is that after installing, before I tried to do 
> anything with the card, I discovered with iwconfig that I had two 
> interfaces--wlan0 and eth1--that were supposedly using an essid and access 
> point that presumably belongs to one of my neighbors. I don't think the 
> card is actually succeeding in a full connection as I can't access the 
> internet when I remove the ethernet cable, bu I can't get rid of these 
> wrong essids. When I put in my essid for my network, which I also have in 
> /etc/interfaces, the information appears to be accepted but the attempt to 
> connect with dhclient doesn't work and when I reboot I find that these 
> interfaces are again trying to connect with the wrong access point. How do 
> I get rid of these and get my crd working properly on my system. Either 
> that, or how do I get rid of the interfaces for this card completely and 
> use the pcmcia atheros chip card that I have used successfully with 
> another machine in the past?

A card that is brought up will generally attempt to connect to any AP
in range, unless it is explicitly told to limit itself to a specific
AP.  There are different ways to manage
wireless, /etc/network/interfaces, NetworkManager, etc.  We need to
know what your config is.

> Cheryl

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Re: wireless card not configure

[Amit Uttamchandani]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:49:18 +0530
"pasupathy murugan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >debian etch
> > netgear wg311 wifi not configure ,
> > pl help me

Hi there,

Sorry to hear that you are having problems. But you probably need to provide 
more details otherwise it is almost impossible for us to help.

There could be many different problems. Driver issues? Configuration issues?

Please provide more details.

Thanks
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Re: Wireless card failing after a while

[Tom Raus]

On Monday 07 January 2008 06:57:10 Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Tom Raus  skynet.be> writes:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I've been having some issues on my IBM netfinity server toybox. For some
>
> reason the networkcard stops
>
> > working while there is no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens during
>
> transfers, sometimes just while
>
> > it's idle. In /var/log/messages I get the following notifications.
>
> 
>
> > The card itself will remain visible in ifconfig, so it's not really going
>
> down, it just doesn't transfer
>
> > anymore. When I do '/etc/init.d/networking restart' then the issue is
> > resolved
>
> again.
>
> > To me it seems like he can't associate anymore with my wireless router,
> > maybe
>
> because of an WPA (PSK/TKIP) issue?
>
>
> Could be -- under WPA the router will periodically change the encryption
> key -- this problem could be occurring when that happens, ie your card
> isn't resynching to the new encryption key for some reason. Does your card
> support WPA? When you used it before was your network using WPA as opposed
> to WEP?
>
> Mark

On the machine where it was working properly before the same exact conditions 
where true. It was the same network with the same encryption with the same 
driver and the exact same operating system. That machine never had any 
problems at all. It could be that it fails the sync but there is little I can 
do about it. If I was better at scripting I could write a script that 
restarts my networking devices (it's only a home server so it's not that big 
of a deal). 

kr,
Tom Raus


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Re: Wireless card failing after a while

[Mark Fletcher]

Tom Raus  skynet.be> writes:

> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I've been having some issues on my IBM netfinity server toybox. For some
reason the networkcard stops
> working while there is no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens during
transfers, sometimes just while
> it's idle. In /var/log/messages I get the following notifications.

 

> The card itself will remain visible in ifconfig, so it's not really going
down, it just doesn't transfer
> anymore. When I do '/etc/init.d/networking restart' then the issue is resolved
again.
> To me it seems like he can't associate anymore with my wireless router, maybe
because of an WPA (PSK/TKIP) issue?
> 

Could be -- under WPA the router will periodically change the encryption key --
this problem could be occurring when that happens, ie your card isn't resynching
to the new encryption key for some reason. Does your card support WPA? When you
used it before was your network using WPA as opposed to WEP?

Mark


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Re: Wireless card for emachine?

[Chris Lale]

Celejar wrote:
> [...]
> 
> The first question is, what wireless card is in the machine? Do lspci,
> and find the entry corresponding to the wireless card. 
> 

Then find the chipset of the wireless card and install the appropriate kernel
module driver. Alternatively, use Ndiswrapper and the Windows driver. Test the
card with tools from the wireless-tools package.

There are examples for the RaLink chipset [1] and for Ndiswrapper [2] on the
NewbieDOC wiki [1].

[1]
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_wireless_network_card_using_drivers_from_Debian_packages
[2] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Ndiswrapper_in_Debian


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Re: Wireless card for emachine?

[Celejar]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:48:09 -0400
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have been given an emachine M5310 laptop with a dead battery and am 
> considering trying to convert it to a debian etch laptop.  I can boot it 
> with a GRML cd and lsdev reports wifi0 when an Activa wifi card is 
> plugged in.  I tried using wlanconfig but have not been able to specify 
> a static IP address to access my home network.  The machine is known to 
> contain its own wifi and searches for dynamic addresses when I boot it 
> with a DebianLive Gnome cd. but Debain/apps/system/network demands a 
> root password and wont accept sudo bash so I can't set an assigned 
> static IP address.
> 
> Is the emachine worth the effort?  A new battery will set me back $95.  
> Would I also need to purchase another Linux compatible wifi card?

The first question is, what wireless card is in the machine? Do lspci,
and find the entry corresponding to the wireless card. 

> Tom George

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Re: wireless card

[Lubos Vrbka]

so after some fiddling, i made the asus wl-107g card to work. the rt2x00 
drivers from sourceforge didn't work for me - i was able to compile it 
but couldn't make the card talk to the router or obtain the address (it 
required SSID broadcast to work at least partially, but not fully - and 
our administrator definitely dislikes the idea to use SSID broadcast)...


so i tried to use ndiswrapper and everything works like a charm. maybe, 
someday in the future i'll have more time to dig into the problem and 
try the gpl'ed driver again.


thanks to all people who replied to my question.

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Re: wireless card

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2006-02-23 09:31:19, schrieb Lubos Vrbka:

> obviously, there aren't too many possibilities (2.6.15 kernel):
> Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards (AIRO_CS)
>   they seems to support only b/
> Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards (PCMCIA_WL3501)
> Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus (PRISM54)
>   several cards have this chip inside

The ORINOCO are missing.

> which one of these three would you recommend? or maybe going with 
> ndiswrapper would be an easier way...

I recommend only Cards witt Prism or Atheros Chipset and such from
Agere, Orinoco or Proxim.  From latest I have the Combo-Card a/b/g
which is quiet expensive, but run with "madwifi" and has a
performace like the heaven.

I use it wirh my OutDoor-Router Proxim Tsunami MP.11a in Marrakech
(Morocco) and Strasbourg (France) and I get a range of more then
3 km using a 93cm long OmniWave Antenna.

Greetings
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Re: wireless card

[Dave Thayer]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:29:15PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> >>>Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
> >>>chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
> >>>these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
> >>>GPL'd rt2500 drivers.
> well, i found all cards that should have rt2500 'onboard' - it might be 
> of some use for others - go to the following link...
> http://ralink.rapla.net/
> 
> i'll probably gor for asus wl107g...
> 

FWIW, I've been using the RT2500 based Zonet ZEW1501 with good results. 

Newegg has them for $19.50. 

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Re: wireless card

[Oliver Lupton]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:43:01 +0800
"Paolo Alexis Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
> chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
> these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
> GPL'd rt2500 drivers.

FWIW you can order a Belkin card which *does* have this chipset from 
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/ the one I ordered has just 
come for my new (gentoo, yeah I'm a traitor) pc, it appears to have the rt2500 
chipset as advertised.

HTH

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Re: wireless card

[Lubos Vrbka]

Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
GPL'd rt2500 drivers.
well, i found all cards that should have rt2500 'onboard' - it might be 
of some use for others - go to the following link...

http://ralink.rapla.net/

i'll probably gor for asus wl107g...

also the following intel cards seem to be promising (if they're 
available as PCMCIA)...

Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200BGMini-PCI/PC-CARD
Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2915ABGMini-PCI/PC-CARD

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Re: wireless card

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 
> > 802.11g.
> > For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects
> > (for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then
> > the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting
> > for the maturity and inclusion of the libieee80211 stack (used by the
> > Intel cards) so that every wifi card would have a standard library of
> > functions.
> i couldn't find any intel pcmcia wifi cards in the kernel config... or
> does this relate to PCI card? what have i overlooked?

My bad... What I was referring to was the libieee80211 subsystem,
which was merged in Linux kernel 2.6.14. You'd still need the drivers
and binary firmware at ipw2200.sf.net

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Re: wireless card

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
> > chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
> > these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
> > GPL'd rt2500 drivers.
> it's not clear whether the engenius and netgear require the firmware or
> not... they work with madwifi, right?

If you want the Engenius cards as well as the Netgear WG511T to work
in Linux, you _do_ require the binary HAL firmware as they employ the
Atheros chipset.


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Re: wireless card

[Lubos Vrbka]

The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 802.11g.
For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects
(for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then
the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting
for the maturity and inclusion of the libieee80211 stack (used by the
Intel cards) so that every wifi card would have a standard library of
functions.
i couldn't find any intel pcmcia wifi cards in the kernel config... or 
does this relate to PCI card? what have i overlooked?


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Re: wireless card

[Lubos Vrbka]

I suggest you forget about the bcm4306. Broadcom clearly doesn't want
to cooperate in making native drivers for operating systems other than
MS Windows.
ok. the card we have here (it's asus wl-100g deluxe) seems to work nice 
in windoze, but since it has bcm4306...



I'm assuming that you're using a mini-PCI wifi card, so I'd suggest
you get one of these, if your budget allows. These are long-range,
high-power cards that have good receive sensitivity, which is good for
wifi, and are Linux-compatible (using the Madwifi drivers):

no, it's not mini-PCI, it's PCMCIA (i need wifi card for 'old' notebook)


PCMCIA
* Engenius NL-5354CB
* Engenius NL-3054CB
* Netgear WG511T

Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
GPL'd rt2500 drivers.
it's not clear whether the engenius and netgear require the firmware or 
not... they work with madwifi, right?


and not all ASUS wifi cards have ralink rt2500 inside, apparently (see 
the top of this post)...



You'd have a tougher time looking for others, such as cards using
Prism54, as they aren't really commercially available. eBay would help
a lot on these though.


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Re: wireless card

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
> >>>support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to
> >>>install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via
> >>>module-assistant.
> >>
> >>for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wrong?
> >>
> >>regards,
> >>
> >
> > You're correct, ndiswrapper isn't needed by cards with native support
> > under the vanilla kernel.
> >
> obviously, there aren't too many possibilities (2.6.15 kernel):
> Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards (AIRO_CS)
> they seems to support only b/
> Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards (PCMCIA_WL3501)
> Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus (PRISM54)
> several cards have this chip inside
>
> which one of these three would you recommend? or maybe going with
> ndiswrapper would be an easier way...

The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 802.11g.
For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects
(for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then
the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting
for the maturity and inclusion of the libieee80211 stack (used by the
Intel cards) so that every wifi card would have a standard library of
functions.

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Re: wireless card

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> i'm planning to buy wifi (b/g) card for my laptop, however i'm not about
> the support. my colleague has asus with broadcom bcm4306 chipset in his
> windoze notebook. i tried it, kernel recognized the card, but the i
> cannot find the respective drivers for linux. according to mr. google it
> seems that this has to be solved using ndiswrapper. is it really so?
>
> do you have good experience with ndiswrapper? or would you be willing to
> recommend some other pcmcia card / provide pointer to relevant information?

I suggest you forget about the bcm4306. Broadcom clearly doesn't want
to cooperate in making native drivers for operating systems other than
MS Windows.

I'm assuming that you're using a mini-PCI wifi card, so I'd suggest
you get one of these, if your budget allows. These are long-range,
high-power cards that have good receive sensitivity, which is good for
wifi, and are Linux-compatible (using the Madwifi drivers):

Mini-PCI
* Engenius EMP-8602 - a 400mW mini-PCI type III card
* Engenius EL-3054MP2
* Engenius EL-3054MP2

PCMCIA
* Engenius NL-5354CB
* Engenius NL-3054CB
* Netgear WG511T

Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
GPL'd rt2500 drivers.

You'd have a tougher time looking for others, such as cards using
Prism54, as they aren't really commercially available. eBay would help
a lot on these though.

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Re: wireless card

[Lubos Vrbka]

If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to
install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via
module-assistant.


for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wrong?

regards,



You're correct, ndiswrapper isn't needed by cards with native support
under the vanilla kernel.


obviously, there aren't too many possibilities (2.6.15 kernel):
Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards (AIRO_CS)
they seems to support only b/
Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards (PCMCIA_WL3501)
Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus (PRISM54)
several cards have this chip inside

which one of these three would you recommend? or maybe going with 
ndiswrapper would be an easier way...


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Re: wireless card

[jlmb]

Lubos Vrbka wrote:
>> I use ndiswrapper too, what can I say...it gets the job done. I even
>> have WPA support.
>>
>> If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
>> support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to
>> install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via
>> module-assistant.
> 
> for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wrong?
> 
> regards,
> 
You're correct, ndiswrapper isn't needed by cards with native support
under the vanilla kernel.


I should had written it like this:
>> I use ndiswrapper too, what can I say...it gets the job done. I even
>> have WPA support. It's very easy to install ndiswrapper module by
>>following its wiki but is *super* easy via module-assistant.

>> If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
>> support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :)


hope it helps.
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Re: wireless card

[Lubos Vrbka]

I use ndiswrapper too, what can I say...it gets the job done. I even
have WPA support.

If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to
install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via
module-assistant.

for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wrong?

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Re: wireless card

[jlmb]

Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> do you have good experience with ndiswrapper? or would you be willing to
> recommend some other pcmcia card / provide pointer to relevant information?
I use ndiswrapper too, what can I say...it gets the job done. I even
have WPA support.

If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to
install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via
module-assistant.



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Re: wireless card

[Paras pradhan]

I am using Netgear 54mpbs pcmcia adapter and working good till now in
my debian sid.

here are the steps.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation


Paras.

On 2/22/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> i'm planning to buy wifi (b/g) card for my laptop, however i'm not about
> the support. my colleague has asus with broadcom bcm4306 chipset in his
> windoze notebook. i tried it, kernel recognized the card, but the i
> cannot find the respective drivers for linux. according to mr. google it
> seems that this has to be solved using ndiswrapper. is it really so?
>
> do you have good experience with ndiswrapper? or would you be willing to
> recommend some other pcmcia card / provide pointer to relevant information?
>
> i found something here
> http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
> but most of the cardbus cards have status 'some works' :(
>
> thanks in advance. regards,
>
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Re: wireless card

[Craig M. Houck]

Here is what I did to get a netgear to work perfectly with ndiwrapper

NdisWrapper

NdisWrapper will use Native Windows Drivers (.INF) on/under/for/with Linux

I have only done this with the 2.6 kernel, never 2.4. 

I also indicate the rev's I used, you may find different revisions.
 
1 Get the source 
ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/1
cd /usr/local/src 
mkdir ndis;cd ndsi 
download the ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz 
gunzip ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz 
tar -xvf ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz 
make distclean 
make 
make install 
-- OR -- 
apt-get install ndiswrapper-source # Source for the ndiswrapper linux
kernel module 
apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils # Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper 
The following is also need to process the windriver.inf file 
apt-get install zip # for win zip'd files 
apt-get install unzip # for win zip'd files 
apt-get install unshield # for win .cab files 
Might also need kernel headers (correct for your cpu, etc.) 
apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386 
Get the Windows Driver you want to use 
Download the driver 
unzip driver.zip 
unshield -d 
x cabfile.cab 
find the driver.inf to use 
ndsiwrapper -i driver.inf 
ndsiwrapper -l
should report on sw and hw SO have the h/w hookedup and powered 
ndsiwrapper -m 
depmod -a 
modprobe ndsiwrapper 
configure the h/w as needed. 
I offer as an example some detail on install/config for a Netgear WG111 V2
Wifi Fob. from the website: 

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation#Compile_
and_install
 
I used some combo of the following to get my Netgear 111 to 'see' and
'talk' to the network ... 
unzip wg111v2_v1.0.0.5.zip 
unshield data2.cab 
ndiswrapper -i data2.inf 
ndiswrapper -m 
depmod -a 
modprobe ndiswrapper 
vi /etc/network/interfaces Add the entires for wlan0
these matched the entrie for the cardbus wireless eithernet card I had
already running in the machine. 
ifdown wlan0; ifup wlan0 
Once I had the fob working, I had to hand create an S99wlan0 file to bring
the fob up. This was set in the rc*.d directory structure. 

THE HTML source to this (behind a password or I would give you the URL)



  NdisWrapper


NdisWrapper


  NdisWrapper will use Native Windows Drivers (.INF) on/under/for/with
Linux
  I have only done this with the 2.6 kernel, never 2.4. 
  I also indicate the rev's I used, you may find different revisions.

   Get the source 

 http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/";>ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/";>sourceforge.net/projects
/ndiswrapper/
 
 cd /usr/local/src
 mkdir ndis;cd ndsi
 download the ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz 
 gunzip ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz 
 tar -xvf ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz 
 make distclean
 make
 make install
 
 
 -- OR --
 
 apt-get install ndiswrapper-source # Source for the ndiswrapper 
linux
kernel module
 apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils # Userspace utilities for 
ndiswrapper
  
 
   
The following is also need to process the windriver.inf file
 
  apt-get install zip # for win zip'd files
  apt-get install unzip # for win zip'd files
  apt-get install unshield # for win .cab files
 

 Might also need kernel headers (correct for your cpu, etc.)

 apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386

   
Get the Windows Driver you want to use

 Download the driver
 unzip driver.zip
 unshield -d  x cabfile.cab
   find the driver.inf to use

ndsiwrapper -i driver.inf 
ndsiwrapper -l
should report on sw and hw SO have the h/w hookedup and powered
ndsiwrapper -m
depmod -a
modprobe ndsiwrapper
configure the h/w as needed. 
I offer as an example some detail on install/config for a Netgear
WG111 V2 Wifi Fob.
  from the website: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation#Co
mpile_and_install">NdisWrapper - Install



   I used some combo of the following to get my Netgear 111 to 'see'
and 'talk' to the network ...
unzip wg111v2_v1.0.0.5.zip
unshield data2.cab
ndiswrapper -i data2.inf
ndiswrapper -m
depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper
vi /etc/network/interfaces 
Add the entires for wlan0
  these matched the entrie for the cardbus wireless eithernet card I had
already running in the machine.
ifdown wlan0; ifup wlan0
Once I had the fob working, I had to hand create an S99wlan0 file
to bring the fob up. 
This was set in the rc*.d directory structure.







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Re: Wireless Card on linux

[Chris Lale]

Deboo ^ wrote:


Hello,

   I have a Compaq Armada with a Netgear wireless PC card (the one
which is linux supported), could someone detail the steps needed to
make it work fully?

And how to make both the wired lan and wireless lan work together. I
guess it has to do something with routing but not very sure. Last time
I made a script to make one interface down and other up, but that's a
pain for others to do who like to use the gui.

I have the ndiswrapper already installed and detecting the card
hardware. What oither steps are needed, what commands etc and how to
configure?

Regards,
Deboo

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Have you tried the ndiswrapper wiki? For Debian Sarge try 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebianSarge


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Re: Wireless Card on linux

[John Summerfied]

Deboo ^ wrote:

Hello,

I have a Compaq Armada with a Netgear wireless PC card (the one
which is linux supported), could someone detail the steps needed to
make it work fully?


This has been discussed time and again, even this year.

What effort have you made for yourself to resolve this?

Why the hell are you asking Debian and Fedora, both? What distro are you 
_really_ using?




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Re: Wireless Card on linux

[Deboo ^]

I have tried compiling ndiswrapper again and also compiled a new
2.4.32 kernel but get an error after installing ndiswrapper. It
detects the card but no lights come up when using iwconfig to make it
up. I'm attaching a text file with the commands I use and the
errors/results I get

I did not have the WIndows driver CD for the Netgear PC card so I
downloaded the drivers from the net.

Regards,
Deboo



On 2/10/06, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Compaq Armada with a Netgear wireless PC card (the one
> which is linux supported), could someone detail the steps needed to
> make it work fully?
>
> And how to make both the wired lan and wireless lan work together. I
> guess it has to do something with routing but not very sure. Last time
> I made a script to make one interface down and other up, but that's a
> pain for others to do who like to use the gui.
>
>  I have the ndiswrapper already installed and detecting the card
> hardware. What oither steps are needed, what commands etc and how to
> configure?
>
> Regards,
> Deboo
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lspci | grep 3890

03:00.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3890 (rev 01)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dmesg|grep eth1

eth1: resetting device...
eth1: uploading firmware...
eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
eth1: islpci_reset: failure
eth1: resetting device...
eth1: uploading firmware...
eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
eth1: islpci_reset: failure

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iwconfig eth1

eth1  NOT READY!  ESSID:"default"  
  Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
  Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/0  
  Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B   
  Encryption key:off
  Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iwlist eth1 scanning

eth1  No scan results

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ifconfig eth1

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:B4:00:00:00  
  BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000 
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
  Interrupt:11 

Re: Wireless card...

[Martin Fluch]

It will be a 2.6.13.x kernel (since vmware has problems on the 2.6.14 kernel).

It is strange that there is so little known about how the current
wireless cards awailable at Verkkokauppa or Tietoasema (thanks for
this hint, I didn't know the shop  before) can be used under linux.

I think we will take the safe side and buy a D-Link DWL-810+. Then
there will not be any driver issues. :-)

Btw, for some reason I could not find any wireless cards for desktop
computers listed in the Hardware HOWTO. Strange. Or I might be blind.

Thanks for all hints! :-)
- Martin

On 11/7/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Which kernel is s/he running, 2.4 or 2.6? Which standard is the access
> point (a/b/g) s/he is using? PCI-cards seem to be able to handle all
> three, so that might not be the limiting factor.
>
> Verkkokauppa carries mostly D-Link wireless products. There seems to be
> one 3Com 11A/B/G card (3Com product number 3CRDAG675) but I couldn't
> find that particular card in the 2.6.14 wireless drivers.
>
> There is also some Buffalo, Linksys and ZyXEL PCI-cards in Verkkokauppa,
> so anybody with experience with those, please jump in.
>
> I have an external wireless adapter (D-Link DWL-810) which is great
> because it can be connected to anything which has a NIC. There is the
> standard network connector and it has a web based setup, so it is really
> compatible with anything.
>
> PS: Does it have to be from Verkkokauppa? I'm using Tietoasema nowadays,
> as I noticed that the service is really professional and the prices are
> sometimes even cheaper than in Verkkokauppa.
>
> Simo
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Re: Wireless card...

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

> As well as checking compatibility here in the LHCH
> (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/) you might also want to
> look up compatibility under ndiswrapper
> (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/).

if you're using, its NOT a compatible hw, since you're using 
the windoze drivers on the cdrom that came with the card

- if the wifi card using broadcom ... most of the broadcom
  is not supported by any linux drivers
- but there are some broadcom chips like the tigon(?) gigE
stuff that have a native linux driver

- if you use ndiswrapper..
- you can only be a wifi client
- you may or may not be able to run wpa
- you may or may not be able to talk to any random 
  "microsoft based" commercial AP
- ... semi endless list ...

c ya
alvin


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Re: Wireless card...

[Cal Paterson]

As well as checking compatibility here in the LHCH
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/) you might also want to
look up compatibility under ndiswrapper
(http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/).
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Re: Wireless card...

[Simo Kauppi]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:05:07AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Martin Fluch wrote:
> 
> > Hi Finnish friends!
> > 
> > A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to
> > connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit
> > problem to decide which wireless PCI cards offered at Verkokauppa are
> > supported by the most current linux kernels. Anyone with experience?
> 
> buy a cisco card ( not linksys ) or atheros chipset based or prism54 based
> 
> for a list of cards or drivers in the kernel
> 
>   {/usr/local/src}/linux-2.4.31//drivers/net/wireless/
> 
> if you use a usb wifi stick .. it can be used on laptops too
> 
> if you want wpa with your ap .. you're on the bleeding edge
> 
> c ya
> alvin

Hi,

Which kernel is s/he running, 2.4 or 2.6? Which standard is the access
point (a/b/g) s/he is using? PCI-cards seem to be able to handle all
three, so that might not be the limiting factor.

Verkkokauppa carries mostly D-Link wireless products. There seems to be
one 3Com 11A/B/G card (3Com product number 3CRDAG675) but I couldn't
find that particular card in the 2.6.14 wireless drivers.

There is also some Buffalo, Linksys and ZyXEL PCI-cards in Verkkokauppa,
so anybody with experience with those, please jump in.

I have an external wireless adapter (D-Link DWL-810) which is great
because it can be connected to anything which has a NIC. There is the
standard network connector and it has a web based setup, so it is really
compatible with anything.

PS: Does it have to be from Verkkokauppa? I'm using Tietoasema nowadays,
as I noticed that the service is really professional and the prices are
sometimes even cheaper than in Verkkokauppa.

Simo
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Re: Wireless card...

[Alvin Oga]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Martin Fluch wrote:

> Hi Finnish friends!
> 
> A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to
> connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit
> problem to decide which wireless PCI cards offered at Verkokauppa are
> supported by the most current linux kernels. Anyone with experience?

buy a cisco card ( not linksys ) or atheros chipset based or prism54 based

for a list of cards or drivers in the kernel

{/usr/local/src}/linux-2.4.31//drivers/net/wireless/

if you use a usb wifi stick .. it can be used on laptops too

if you want wpa with your ap .. you're on the bleeding edge

c ya
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Re: wireless card for a laptop

[Russ Price]

M. Maas wrote:
I've recently bought a new netgear WG511. But all the newer ones are
being sold as WG511 but actually are WG511v2 as in version two of
the product.
This version contains a broadcom chipset and will not work with
Linux. Except perhaps with ndiswrapper...
So far, my favorite has been the Proxim Orinoco Gold b/g (8470-FC), 
which uses an Atheros chipset (and the madwifi drivers on Linux). It 
Just Works [1]. I now have two of them, one permanently attached to 
a homebrew cantenna [2], and the other running solo.

The Proxim b/g card uses the same MC antenna connector as the classic 
Lucent/Agere Orinoco cards, if you want/need to use an external antenna.

Russ
"Bus error (passengers dumped)"
[1] It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some vendors are about 
their model numbers - why the f___ can't they at least use a different 
model number when they decide to use a new chipset du jour? (And no, 
adding a version number doesn't count!) So far, at least Proxim 
has been consistent with the Orinoco b/g card's chipset... but it's 
anybody's guess how long that will last.

[2] The MC male connector is delicate - it won't stand up to many 
connect/disconnect cycles, so it's best to leave the pigtail permanently 
attached to the card. I learned this after destroying a pigtail through 
too many such cycles. :o(

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Re: wireless card for a laptop

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dbp lists wrote:
> Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a laptop?
>>From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear
> WG511  and the Hawking HWC54G.
> 

Hi,

I've recently bought a new netgear WG511. But all the newer ones are
being sold as WG511 but actually are WG511v2 as in version two of
the product.

This version contains a broadcom chipset and will not work with
Linux. Except perhaps with ndiswrapper...

I recommend a Ralink chipset based product, all Sweex products have
that chipset, as well as e-tech i think.

Anyway, if you got money go buy a Cisco Aironet series PCMCIA
adapter. You won't get 11g, but it is supported beyond belief!

Everything works, the newer ones even have a sub processor
alleviating your CPU!

And it works with dsniff, kismet, etc ;-)

Mark
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Re: wireless card for a laptop

[Glenn English]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 11:04 -0700, dbp lists wrote:
> Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a laptop?
> >From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear
> WG511  and the Hawking HWC54G.
> 
> Actually - any general advice at all on running debian on a laptop
> would be appreciated.  (woody vs sarge  vs sid).  Kernel 2.4 vs 2.6.
> It's a Thinkpad 570E (PIII, 500MHz) that is arriving in the mail next
> week.
> 
> I'm thinking about maybe using another distribution, if necessary.

FWIW:

I have an 'old' Dell C600. It does quite well with an 802.11b Orinoco
PCMCIA card and an Apple AirPort AP (there's a Mac to configure the
AirPort). If I understand correctly, it's the chipset that really
matters, and this one is Lucent.

I tried several times to get Woody running on it, and it almost worked
once. The current Sarge netinstall worked very well. It's runs Ubuntu
now (essentially Sid, I think -- 2.6 kernel, optimized for the desktop),
and does your standard laptop things very nicely (compiling, serving,
databasing, audio processing, etc. are all on towers running Sarge or
DeMuDi).

I've put Fedora on it, but since I use one flavor or another of Debian
everywhere else, I settled on Ubuntu. Besides, I trust the Debian
developers more. And there's always apt/rpm...

Enjoy your Thinkpad. And stick with Debian. It works (at 5000 feet
elevation, anyway :-)

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Re: Wireless card recommendations

[Patrick Hsieh]

Works well under my IBM X21 laptop. :-)

FYI.

>
> I second this experience!  They are excellent cards.


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Re: Wireless card recommendations

[Tom Allison]

Randy Edwards wrote:

Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian?   The
Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but
seem rather expensive...



   Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com for 
prices?).  Mindlessly simple setup, great Linux support, and good 
quality/performance.


I second this experience!  They are excellent cards.


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Re: Wireless card recommendations

[Glyn Millington]

Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


> Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com
> for prices?).  Mindlessly simple setup, great Linux support, and
> good quality/performance.

Mindless is what I need at the moment %-)

Many thanks for the pointers!


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Re: Wireless card recommendations

[Randy Edwards]

Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian?   The
Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but
seem rather expensive...


   Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com for 
prices?).  Mindlessly simple setup, great Linux support, and good 
quality/performance.

(Have read the Hardware HOWTO but would like some more debian-specific
advice!)


   There has been a couple of threads on  on this 
topic.  See: 
 
and 
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Re: Wireless card recommendations

[Randy Edwards]

Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian?   The
Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but
seem rather expensive...


   Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com for 
prices?).  Mindlessly simple setup, great Linux support, and good 
quality/performance.

(Have read the Hardware HOWTO but would like some more debian-specific
advice!)


   There has been a couple of threads on  on this 
topic.  See: 
 
and 
.

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