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I'm using the RevP card. I've read that it uses the Prism3 chipset, |
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but I can't get that to work with the card. Is there a seperate driver |
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that I need to download for it or something? |
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On 6/15/05, Brian Bulkowski <brian@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> D-Link changes chipssets among the same "version" of the card. I have a |
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> DWL-650G rev C, which is Atheros (although I'm running windows, I'm |
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> running Wireless capture software, which requires a special driver --- |
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> I'm using a NetGear with a known Atheros chipset in my Gentoo machine). |
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> I'm confused by which card you might have, unlikely it's the same as |
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> mine, but you'll have to dig to figure it out. Maybe just try a couple |
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> of things. |
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> |
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> About masked packages - find the howto, use it. All the Atheros |
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> (MadWifi) projects are masked, too. |
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> |
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> -brianb |
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> Alex Laughlin-Dendy wrote: |
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> >Hi, |
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> > |
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> > I've got a D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA wireless card and I'm trying to |
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> >make it work with gentoo and my Dell laptop. I'm competely clueless |
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> >here as I've never made wireless work on linux before. I've tried |
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> >using ndiswrapper and cardmgr to load the drivers, but ndiswrapper |
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> >won't see the hardware at all and cardmgr gives me these error |
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> >messages when I put the card in: |
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> > |
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> >Jun 14 11:08:57 [cardmgr] socket 0: D-Link DWL-650 |
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> >Jun 14 11:08:58 [kernel] hermes @ IO 0x280: Timeout waiting for card |
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> >to reset (reg=0x0000)! |
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> >Jun 14 11:08:59 [wait_for_sysfs] error: unknown bus, please report to |
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> ><linux-hotplug-devel@×××××××××××××××××.net> 'pcmcia' |
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> >Jun 14 11:08:59 [wait_for_sysfs] either wait_for_sysfs (udev 045) |
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> >needs an update to handle the device |
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> >'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0.0' properly (unknown bus) or the |
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> >sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report |
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> >to <linux-hotplug-devel@×××××××××××××××××.net> |
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> >Jun 14 11:08:59 [cardmgr] get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource |
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> >temporarily unavailable |
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> > |
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> >I take it I'm not using the right driver. What driver should I be |
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> >using? Is there an easy way to make these cards work? |
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> >Thanks. :-) |
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