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From: Brian Bulkowski <brian@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] D-Link DWL-650
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:29:41
Message-Id: 42B05718.5010809@bulkowski.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-laptop] D-Link DWL-650 by Alex Laughlin-Dendy
1 D-Link changes chipssets among the same "version" of the card. I have a
2 DWL-650G rev C, which is Atheros (although I'm running windows, I'm
3 running Wireless capture software, which requires a special driver ---
4 I'm using a NetGear with a known Atheros chipset in my Gentoo machine).
5 I'm confused by which card you might have, unlikely it's the same as
6 mine, but you'll have to dig to figure it out. Maybe just try a couple
7 of things.
8
9 About masked packages - find the howto, use it. All the Atheros
10 (MadWifi) projects are masked, too.
11
12 -brianb
13
14 Alex Laughlin-Dendy wrote:
15
16 >Hi,
17 >
18 > I've got a D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA wireless card and I'm trying to
19 >make it work with gentoo and my Dell laptop. I'm competely clueless
20 >here as I've never made wireless work on linux before. I've tried
21 >using ndiswrapper and cardmgr to load the drivers, but ndiswrapper
22 >won't see the hardware at all and cardmgr gives me these error
23 >messages when I put the card in:
24 >
25 >Jun 14 11:08:57 [cardmgr] socket 0: D-Link DWL-650
26 >Jun 14 11:08:58 [kernel] hermes @ IO 0x280: Timeout waiting for card
27 >to reset (reg=0x0000)!
28 >Jun 14 11:08:59 [wait_for_sysfs] error: unknown bus, please report to
29 ><linux-hotplug-devel@×××××××××××××××××.net> 'pcmcia'
30 >Jun 14 11:08:59 [wait_for_sysfs] either wait_for_sysfs (udev 045)
31 >needs an update to handle the device
32 >'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0.0' properly (unknown bus) or the
33 >sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report
34 >to <linux-hotplug-devel@×××××××××××××××××.net>
35 >Jun 14 11:08:59 [cardmgr] get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource
36 >temporarily unavailable
37 >
38 >I take it I'm not using the right driver. What driver should I be
39 >using? Is there an easy way to make these cards work?
40 >
41 >Thanks. :-)
42 >
43 >
44 >
45
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] D-Link DWL-650 Alex Laughlin-Dendy <aldendy@×××××.com>