On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:43:25PM +0200, Tim Kynerd wrote: > On advice I got from alt.os.linux.debian, I just now installed the 2.6.8 > kernel and tried again. Now there is an interface called "ath0" (the > wireless card has an Atheros chipset, hence the name of the interface), > but somehow it doesn't seem to be connected to the hardware -- among > other things, there are messages coming through during boot where the > system tries to initialize the ath0 interface, but it says, "No such > device"; and when I open the graphical "Networking" tool and try to > activate the ath0 interface, the first attempt fails (the interface is > immediately deactivated again), and the second attempt locks up the > Networking tool. Oops. > > And there's no /proc/pci file under this kernel, so I can't check that. > > Any advice on resolving this? >
Hi Tim, I have that card running on Debian and a 2.6.8 kernel The drivers should show in lsmod: $lsmod | grep ath ath_pci 56096 0 ath_rate_onoe 8584 1 ath_pci wlan 106588 4 wlan_wep,ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe ath_hal 148560 2 ath_pci If not you need to install them... (do this as root) I followed the instructions from this site: http://www.packetpro.com/~peterson/linux-netgear_wg311t_pci.html First download with cvs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi build: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd madwifi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# make [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# make install load the modules: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /sbin/modprobe wlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /sbin/modprobe ath_hal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /sbin/modprobe ath_pci Then edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp # wg311t wireless card (new primary card) auto ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp wireless-essid SOMEESSIDNAME wireless-channel 6 wireless-key SOMESECRETKEY once /etc/network/interfaces has been edited, bring up the network: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /sbin/ifconfig ath0 up This is assuming you have dhcp of course, if not: man interfaces :-) good luck! -- Angelina Carlton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
