Wireless help needed (long wail of anguish)

From: Kamus of Kadizhar (yan_at_NsOeSiPnAeMr.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:48:50 -0500

I have a cappuccino PC - specifically the EZ3. See
http://www.cappuccinopc.com . The particular version I have comes with
the wireless network card on board.

Internally, it's hooked up to the USB bus, so it should come up as a USB
adapter.

lsusb does in fact show it as attached:

[root@hermes root]# /sbin/lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 12fd:1001 <=== the ID for Atmel wireless
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I *think* that device ID is for an Atmel at76c505 chipset. Any way to
confirm that? Any master list of devices and chipsets anywhere?

This is where the fun starts. This machine is running Fedora Core 2,
but it is normally controlled via LIRC, so I use a plain kernel. No
problem with any of that, except...

I installed and compiled a 2.6.9 kernel. I can't for the life of me get
that wireless card to come up.

I've tried the Berlios driver; it won't compile with 2.6.9. I've tried
the sourceforge driver; it builds the module, the module loads but the
wireless won't come up. There is no wlan0 or eth1.

I found a reference that the 2.6.9 driver uses downloadable firmware for
the various atmel cards. So I got the tarball and thinking that maybe the
interface is not getting initialized, I tried to use the atmel_fwl utility
to manually load the firmware. No dice:

[root@hermes usb]# /usr/sbin/atmel_fwl eth1 /usr/src/atmel-firmware-1.1/images.usb/atmel_at76c505-rfmd2958.bin
atmel_fwl: eth1 is not an Atmel interface.

This happens if I have the kernel atmel driver loaded, or one of the
sourceforge drivers loaded.

The docs for the firmware loader say:

If you do not wish to use the hotplug system, this package includes
a "push" firmware loader, atmel_fwl. You should arrange to run this
as root from a network-startup script or PCMCIA script _before_ the
interface is brought up.

So how do I get the interface to be active (addressed by ethX or whatever)?

Oh yes, iwconfig says:

[root@hermes atmel-firmware-1.1]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.

grep shows that the vendor ID is not in any of the hotplug scripts:

[root@hermes hotplug]# grep -r 12fd *
[root@hermes hotplug]#

I've successfully used wireless USB networking before; I have a PCI Atmel
card working fine in another machine, albeit with an older kernel...

Any ideas? Anyone have this working?

Thanks,

--Kamus 

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