[solved] Wireless connection on Asus P5AD2-E Premium mobo

[TWO515TY]

Hello, I have an Asus P5AD2-E Premium mobo which has a built in wireless connection. I have it working just fine under windows, but I would like to get it working in Linux as well. I tried ndiswrapper, the driver installed fine, and I could modprobe ndiswrapper just fine, but if I tried to join my network (using iwconfig), my computer would lock up. I did use the driver from my mobo CD, but as far as I know, that driver is the only 32 bit driver that exsists for my mobo's wifi connection (the same version is on the Asus website). I was wondering if perhaps there is a different driver I could use.

Here's the output of my lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 925X/XE Memory Controller Hub (rev 0e)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 925X/XE PCI Express Root Port (rev 0e)
0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88W8310 and 88W8000G [Libertas] 802.11g client chipset (rev 07) this is the wireless adaptor
0000:01:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:04.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (PCI version seems to be IT8212, embedded seems (rev 13)
0000:01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) marvell ethernet 1
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) marvell ethernet 2
0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
0000:05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b70

And while I'm at it, I've been unable to get my two Marvell gigabit ethernet ports working. I tried both skge and sk98lin, both built in and both as modules, and neither one would yield any results. Does anyone know how to get the Marvell Gb ethernet ports working?

[TWO515TY]

Hmmm.... well after some googling it seems there's no support for this chip in linux at all. I don't think my mobo is very linux-friendly.

[TWO515TY]

Well if anyone cares, I got it working, it turns out I had to use ndiswrapper 1.0. Now I just have to get these damn Marvell Gb ethernets working.

[Tadashi]

Patching your kernel with the syskonnect drivers should work:
http://syskonnect.com/syskonnect/suppor ... k9elin.htm

At least it does for me

[HeXiLeD]

TWO515TY
we have a common problem

here is the solution for the gb nics
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-37 ... cd9109a313

now i hope i can solve my problem :
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-37 ... cd9109a313
and get my wireless working from your experience.