wireless PCI card

From: Jason Rennie (jrennie_at_csail.mit.edu)
Date: 03/15/05

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    Hello,

    I'm trying to get a Hawking Tech. HWP54G-CA PCI wireless card working
    with Debian Sarge. I've successfully compiled and loaded the
    ndiswrapper kernel modules. Also, debian auto-magically loads the
    prism54 and firmware_class modules. But, it won't work. I've
    included below what I think is all the relevant information. Any
    ideas as to what I might try would be very much appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Jason

    jrennie@syrah:~$ /sbin/iwconfig
    lo no wireless extensions.

    eth0 no wireless extensions.

    eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any
              Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
              Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200
              Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B
              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

    jrennie@syrah:~$ lspci -v
    [snip]
    0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
            Subsystem: Unknown device 17cf:0020
            Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 12
            Memory at cfff4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
            Capabilities: <available only to root>
    [snip]

    jrennie@syrah:~$ lsmod
    Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
    ndiswrapper 100852 0
    input 3872 0 (autoclean)
    sis 49120 0
    sisfb 233676 0 [sis]
    fbcon-cfb32 3880 0 [sisfb]
    fbcon-cfb8 3592 0 [sisfb]
    fbcon-cfb16 4200 0 [sisfb]
    apm 10704 0 (autoclean)
    openafs.mp 512664 2
    af_packet 14408 1 (autoclean)
    prism54 45932 0 (unused)
    firmware_class 3980 0 [prism54]
    usb-ohci 20136 0 (unused)
    usbcore 65996 1 [ndiswrapper usb-ohci]
    trident 31216 0 (unused)
    soundcore 4420 2 [trident]
    pcigame 1544 0 [trident]
    gameport 1692 0 [pcigame]
    ac97_codec 13720 0 [trident]
    ide-scsi 10192 0
    scsi_mod 100788 1 [ide-scsi]
    sis900 14252 1
    crc32 2928 0 [sis900]
    ide-cd 31296 0
    cdrom 30112 0 [ide-cd]
    rtc 7112 0 (autoclean)
    ext3 68548 3 (autoclean)
    jbd 46104 3 (autoclean) [ext3]
    sis5513 11568 1 (autoclean)
    unix 16816 10 (autoclean)

    jrennie@syrah:~$ more /proc/pci
    [snip]
      Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
        Network controller: Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1 (rev 1).
          IRQ 12.
          Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=28.
          Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfff4000 [0xcfff5fff].
    [snip]

    jrennie@syrah:~$ sudo ifup eth1
    Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1.

    jrennie@syrah:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
    Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
    Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
    All rights reserved.

    Please contribute if you find this software useful.
    For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

    wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
    Bind socket to interface: No such device
    exiting.
    Failed to bring up wlan0.

    jrennie@syrah:~$ more /etc/network/interfaces
    # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
    # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

    # The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    # The primary network interface
    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

    # The primary network interface
    iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    pre-up modprobe ndiswrapper
    post-down rmmod ndiswrapper

    jrennie@syrah:~$ ndiswrapper -l
    Installed ndis drivers:
    wlancig driver present, hardware present 

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