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twistie n00b

Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: PCMCIA Wlan Card Problems |
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Okay so I have a Dlink DWL-G630 PCMCIA Card (Hardware: D1, Firmware: 4.10). First I attempted to get the card working by using ndiswrapper. I tried loading the d-link driver and assigning it to PCI id 168c:001a. I then rebooted only to find no wireless devices under iwconfig. I then removed the driver from ndiswrapper tried a 3rd party Atheros driver which seemed to automatically assign itself to the same PCI id. I then rebooted but with no success. I then removed the 3rd party driver from ndiswrapper and installed madwifi, went 'modprobe ath_pci' only to have it tell me that there was no such module. I then recompiled my kernel, but to no avail on the modprobe front. I have retried the ndiswrapper drivers two or three times now. I must be missing something in the process for gentoo. Can anybody help me? |
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tenorism n00b

Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Greece
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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do you see anything happening when inserting the card in the slot? (led or try checking the dmesg).
Make sure you have built in the kernel or as a module, the following:
Bus options (Pci etc.) --->
[*] PCI support
PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support --->
<*> PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
<*> 16-bit PCMCIA support
--- PC-card bridges
<*> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support
<M> Cirrus PD6729 compatible bridge support
<M> i82092 compatible bridge support
For me it is yenta that does the work.So I chose to build it in the kernel or else as a module you have to "modprobe yenta_socket" |
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