Re: Netgear WG511T on Damn Small Linux

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:58:37 -0700, Xandros Desktop OS User wrote:

I got this cheap wireless card for my old laptop thatI installed Linux
on . It was the only card I could find that had any Linux support at
all. It is supposed to work under the madwifi driver which I loaded on
the DSL distro on my old laptop.

Well its not working and I get some error messages in the boot up screen.

insmod: Module ath_hal loaded with warnings
module wlan loaded with warnings
insmod/lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_pci.0 init module no such devvice

insmod Hint:insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
You many find mroe information in syslog or output from dmseg

I am not sure how to fix it though

Can anyone help?

I am a bit of a newbie in Linux it would be nice to get this working
since the other choice is to use the windows 98 partition where it works
fine.

But I hate to expose myself to all that bad stuff.

Thanks

Jeanette

What does lspci and lspcmcia say? I just went
through this and it's a problem with how some of the PCMCIA hardware is
configured. Linux just doesn't see all of the PCMCIA busses.

Add the following to the kernel boot line:

pci=assign-busses

and see if that makes your card appear in lspcmcia and lspci.

--Yan

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