Re: Hawking HWPC54G WLAN adapter woes
From: Markus Kossmann (markus.kossmann_at_inka.de)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 04:54:40 +0100
Luigi de Guzman wrote:
> Hi. I'm running SUSE 9.1 Personal on an old desktop and am trying to
> install a PCI wireless network adapter (Hawking HWPC54G).
>
> Having triple-checked that I have in fact installed the PCI card
> correctly, I find that SUSEplugger recognizes that new hardware has
> been installed and lists it as "available" but not configured.
According to http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz this
card uses a PrismGT chip. So it's not enough to provide the driver but
you have to provide the firmware, too. You might want to check out
http://www.prism54.org/ to get more information about the PrismGT.
>
> I first attempted to configure it in YAST, but none of the modules I
> had on hand worked.
>
> I then found an (old?) rpm of the ndiswrapper module, and attempted to
> load that and the windows driver (which I found on the installation CD
> that came with the PCI card) that way, but no luck, either:
> ndiswrapper installed the driver just fine, but warned me that the
> hardware was NOT PRESENT.
>
> The lights on the adapter itself blink when the computer is
> powered-up, but thereafter they are dark--neither the TX/RX light nor
> the LINK light shines.
>
> Any ideas on how to get this to run? Failing that, does anybody know
> of an 802.11b PCI card that works with SUSE 9.1 "out of the box"?
Well, I'am running a Netgear MA311, which is Prism2 based, with the
orinoco_pci driver. Any other Prism2/2.5/3 based PCI card ( see
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz) should do as
well.
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