Re: Wireless & CD problems.



On 8/15/06, Ed Jabbour <ejbr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Two problems here on an IBM T30. Running whatever the latest Ubuntu is.

1. Network: A Netgear WG511 PCMCIA card, Made in China v.3. Took the
driver off the Netgear CD (more on this below) , ran ndiswrapper and got
nada. Upon reinserting the card, dmesg|tail shows:
17183869.344000 eth1: resetting device . . .
17183869.396000 eth1: uploading firmware
17183869.480000 eth1: firmware version: 1.0.4.3
17183869.480000 eth1" firmware upload complete
17183870.480000 eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
17183871:480000 eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
17183871:480000 eth1: interface reset failure
17183871:480000 eth1: prism54: Your card/socket may be faulty, or IRQ
line too busy:(

The card works wo a hitch in Windoze 2K.

2. CD drive: This is very odd. If I load a live CD of whatever sort,
Kubuntu, Knoppix, etc., it comes up as a blank CD and won't mount. Needless
to say, they won't boot. If I insert the Netgear CD, it mounts and can be
read. Same for the Scrabble game CD, and same for the bootable IBM Windoze
recovery disc, which does boot. So, any CD having to do with Windoze works;
any CD having to do with Linux doesn't.

Any hints, pointers, guesses, greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Hi Ed!

First of all I note that the prisim54 driver (common for the v.2
version of your wireless card) is apparently talking to you through
dmesg. Please note the first step in the following tutorial:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=295200

For some reason most tutorials leave out the part where the wrapped
driver is associated with the hardware (a pci thing usually). This is
done by, if memory serves, doing an:

lspci -v

Note your wireless hardware in the output then do an:

lspci -n

Find the entry by comparing the two outputs and note the number of the
form XXXX:XXXX (see ndiswrapper -h for a bit of reminder). Then do
an:

ndiswrapper -d XXXX:XXXX driver

Where the XXXX:XXXX are the numbers located above (your devid) and
driver was described by a previous:

ndiswrapper -l

Which found your successfully wrapped driver (be careful of spelling
and case so do the ndiswrapper -l).

I have occasionally run into a CD player that did not like linux.
Chage it out and see what happens. If it is USB, see if you can find
an upgraded or other sourced driver for it.

Follows some tutorials:
Looks to be a good basic tutorial:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper
Some tutorials and info can be found here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Ubuntu
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper?action=show&redirect=SetupNdiswrapperHowto


I hope this helps!

Have fun!

Tod

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