[Comm-en] Aetheros Card (D-Link DWL 650)

[Comm-en] Aetheros Card (D-Link DWL 650)

[Richard Hainsworth]

I have a new D-Link pcmcia card which has the Aethoros chip set. My
distro is Compact 2.3

I used cardctl to get the card information to get
PRODID_1="Atheros Communications, Inc."
PRODID_2="AR5001-0000-0000"
PRODID_3="Wireless LAN Reference Card"
PRODID_4="00"
MANFID=0271,0012
FUNCID=6

Then I updated the file /etc/pcmcia/config with
card "Atheros Communications, Inc."
manfid 0271,0012
bind airo_cs

However, I doubt the driver is right.

The following instructions are part of a receipe I found on the net for
redhat 

cd /lib/modules/{kernel}/madwifi
insnode wlan.o
insnode ath_hal.o
insnode ath_pci.o

The first two exit without error but the last produces the error on
stderr and a message in dmesg

ath_pci.o: init_module: No such device

and using dmesg:
ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.

iwconfig produces:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

irlan0    no wireless extensions.



So what do I need to do to get the madwifi working?

Richard

Re: [Comm-en] Aetheros Card (D-Link DWL 650)

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:37:59AM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> I have a new D-Link pcmcia card which has the Aethoros chip set. My
> distro is Compact 2.3
> 
> I used cardctl to get the card information to get
> PRODID_1="Atheros Communications, Inc."
> PRODID_2="AR5001-0000-0000"
> PRODID_3="Wireless LAN Reference Card"
> PRODID_4="00"
> MANFID=0271,0012
> FUNCID=6
> 
> Then I updated the file /etc/pcmcia/config with
> card "Atheros Communications, Inc."
> manfid 0271,0012
> bind airo_cs

I don't see this PCI ID in the madwifi driver:
        { 0x168c, 0x0007, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
        { 0x168c, 0x0012, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
        { 0x168c, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
        { 0xa727, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com */
        { 0x10b7, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com	3CRDAG675 */
        { 0x168c, 0x1014, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },	/* IBM minipci 5212 */


Could you run pciscan -v and send its output here?

> However, I doubt the driver is right.
> 
> The following instructions are part of a receipe I found on the net for
> redhat 
> 
> cd /lib/modules/{kernel}/madwifi
> insnode wlan.o
> insnode ath_hal.o
> insnode ath_pci.o
> 
> The first two exit without error but the last produces the error on
> stderr and a message in dmesg
> 
> ath_pci.o: init_module: No such device
> 
> and using dmesg:
> ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
> ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
You don't need to do so. In fact, most work would be something like this:
1. Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 as regular for network
interfaces:
	
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
WIRELESS_ESSID="wireless"

2. Install hotplug package. It would allow you to automatically execute
interface creation during card insert (and shut the interface down when
card is removed).

3. Make sure that your PCI ID for the card is known by the driver. I would
suggest you to send pciscan -v output here first and then we'll decide how
to go.
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy
Samba Team                      http://www.samba.org/
ALT Linux Team                  http://www.altlinux.org/
Midgard Project Ry              http://www.midgard-project.org/

Re: [Comm-en] Aetheros Card (D-Link DWL 650)

[Richard Hainsworth]

Could not find psciscan

Where to get it?

Richard

On Чтв, 2004-07-01 at 15:03, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:37:59AM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> > I have a new D-Link pcmcia card which has the Aethoros chip set. My
> > distro is Compact 2.3
> > 
> > I used cardctl to get the card information to get
> > PRODID_1="Atheros Communications, Inc."
> > PRODID_2="AR5001-0000-0000"
> > PRODID_3="Wireless LAN Reference Card"
> > PRODID_4="00"
> > MANFID=0271,0012
> > FUNCID=6
> > 
> > Then I updated the file /etc/pcmcia/config with
> > card "Atheros Communications, Inc."
> > manfid 0271,0012
> > bind airo_cs
> 
> I don't see this PCI ID in the madwifi driver:
>         { 0x168c, 0x0007, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0x168c, 0x0012, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0x168c, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0xa727, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com */
>         { 0x10b7, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com	3CRDAG675 */
>         { 0x168c, 0x1014, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },	/* IBM minipci 5212 */
> 
> 
> Could you run pciscan -v and send its output here?
> 
> > However, I doubt the driver is right.
> > 
> > The following instructions are part of a receipe I found on the net for
> > redhat 
> > 
> > cd /lib/modules/{kernel}/madwifi
> > insnode wlan.o
> > insnode ath_hal.o
> > insnode ath_pci.o
> > 
> > The first two exit without error but the last produces the error on
> > stderr and a message in dmesg
> > 
> > ath_pci.o: init_module: No such device
> > 
> > and using dmesg:
> > ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
> > ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
> You don't need to do so. In fact, most work would be something like this:
> 1. Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 as regular for network
> interfaces:
> 	
> DEVICE=ath0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=no
> WIRELESS_ESSID="wireless"
> 
> 2. Install hotplug package. It would allow you to automatically execute
> interface creation during card insert (and shut the interface down when
> card is removed).
> 
> 3. Make sure that your PCI ID for the card is known by the driver. I would
> suggest you to send pciscan -v output here first and then we'll decide how
> to go.

Re: [Comm-en] Aetheros Card (D-Link DWL 650)

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:12:45PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> Could not find psciscan
> 
> Where to get it?
libhw-tools package (in Sisyphus). However, there are alternatives.
What distribution do you use? Compact? Then you should have an
alternative:

	lspci -nv

from pciutils package.
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy
Samba Team                      http://www.samba.org/
ALT Linux Team                  http://www.altlinux.org/
Midgard Project Ry              http://www.midgard-project.org/

Re: [Comm-en] Aetheros Card (D-Link DWL 650)

[Richard Hainsworth]

Attached is full output from lspci -v

Last entry is: 
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 3202
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at 18800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Richard

On Чтв, 2004-07-01 at 15:03, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:37:59AM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> > I have a new D-Link pcmcia card which has the Aethoros chip set. My
> > distro is Compact 2.3
> > 
> > I used cardctl to get the card information to get
> > PRODID_1="Atheros Communications, Inc."
> > PRODID_2="AR5001-0000-0000"
> > PRODID_3="Wireless LAN Reference Card"
> > PRODID_4="00"
> > MANFID=0271,0012
> > FUNCID=6
> > 
> > Then I updated the file /etc/pcmcia/config with
> > card "Atheros Communications, Inc."
> > manfid 0271,0012
> > bind airo_cs
> 
> I don't see this PCI ID in the madwifi driver:
>         { 0x168c, 0x0007, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0x168c, 0x0012, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0x168c, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0xa727, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com */
>         { 0x10b7, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com	3CRDAG675 */
>         { 0x168c, 0x1014, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },	/* IBM minipci 5212 */
> 
> 
> Could you run pciscan -v and send its output here?
> 
> > However, I doubt the driver is right.
> > 
> > The following instructions are part of a receipe I found on the net for
> > redhat 
> > 
> > cd /lib/modules/{kernel}/madwifi
> > insnode wlan.o
> > insnode ath_hal.o
> > insnode ath_pci.o
> > 
> > The first two exit without error but the last produces the error on
> > stderr and a message in dmesg
> > 
> > ath_pci.o: init_module: No such device
> > 
> > and using dmesg:
> > ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
> > ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
> You don't need to do so. In fact, most work would be something like this:
> 1. Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 as regular for network
> interfaces:
> 	
> DEVICE=ath0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=no
> WIRELESS_ESSID="wireless"
> 
> 2. Install hotplug package. It would allow you to automatically execute
> interface creation during card insert (and shut the interface down when
> card is removed).
> 
> 3. Make sure that your PCI ID for the card is known by the driver. I would
> suggest you to send pciscan -v output here first and then we'll decide how
> to go.