On Tuesday 12 April 2005 17:16, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:58:32 -0500 > > LostSon wrote: > > Well i have been at this for days and i have posted in the forums as well > > but to no avail. so here goes > > > > Im having troubles getting my USB wireless working. I have the kernel > > configs right i followed the how to on gentoo wiki. I have built my > > driver with ndiswrapper and installed it as well. My led light comes on > > to let me know the wireless module is working. Howerver when doing a > > iwconfig i get > > > > Code: > > lo no wireless extensions > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions > > is eth0 the wireless device or a wired ethernet port? If its a wired > ethernet port then its pretty clear that the module for the card has not > loaded, because otherwise it would have created a network interface. > > do the following: > > unplug the device > dmesg -c > plug in the device > dmesg > > tell us what the second dmesg says.
I cant plug and unplug the device its integrated > > also what can you tell from /proc/bus/usb? > > ummm i assume you do have hotplug installed and running? Yes hotplug is in the default runlevel and working > > > I updated my baselayout and all that as well. I had wireless working on > > this laptop before with gentoo. I have recently done a fresh install. I > > wrote down everything i did before to get it working but this time no > > luck > > > > The USB module is WirelessLAN Prism3 IEEE802.11b WM168 USB Module > > > > Im at a loss any ideas ?? Thanks. > > > > also i remember last time the card would show up with the lsusb command > > but now all i get is this > > > > Code: > > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > > > > > as far as i know and believe i have USB enabled yes, i could be wrong > > though how did you enable yours ? > > also if i run iwconfig wlan0 i get this > > > > Code: > > iwconfig wlan0 > > wlan0 No such device > > > > > > > > its still not showing up > > > > i get this in dmesg > > > > Code: > > Modules linked in: ndiswrapper > > CPU: 0 > > EIP: 0060:[<c020b61d>] Tainted: G S VLI > > EFLAGS: 00010212 (2.6.11-gentoo-r5) > > EIP is at memcpy+0x1d/0x40 > > eax: 00000010 ebx: ccb30360 ecx: 00000004 edx: 00000000 > > esi: c6eabecc edi: 00000000 ebp: c6eabedc esp: c6eabea0 > > ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > > Process artsd (pid: 7282, threadinfo=c6eaa000 task=ccd415b0) > > Stack: c13f42e4 00000050 c0331156 00000000 c6eabecc 00000010 ccb30360 > > c0331f2a ccb30360 c6eabecc 00000050 00000006 00000000 00000000 00000000 > > 00000005 00000001 00000000 00000000 00008002 00000000 00000000 00000000 > > 00000000 Call Trace: > > [<c0331156>] snd_timer_user_append_to_tqueue+0x46/0x50 > > [<c0331f2a>] snd_timer_user_params+0x1ca/0x210 > > [<c03322d2>] snd_timer_user_ioctl+0x212/0x220 > > [<c016f820>] do_ioctl+0x70/0xa0 > > [<c016fa65>] vfs_ioctl+0x65/0x1f0 > > [<c015bd5f>] fd_install+0x2f/0x60 > > [<c016fc35>] sys_ioctl+0x45/0x70 > > [<c01032af>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > > Code: 50 fd 31 c0 c3 31 d2 b8 f2 ff ff ff c3 90 83 ec 08 8b 44 24 14 89 > > 34 24 8b 54 24 0c 89 7c 24 04 8b 74 24 10 89 c1 c1 e9 02 89 d7 <f3> a5 a8 > > 02 74 02 66 a5 a8 01 74 01 a4 8b 34 24 89 d0 8b 7c 24 > > none of that looks as if it has anything to do with this problem, unless it > is closely related in time to plugging or unplugging the device. > > > but im not sure what it means any ideas, thanks. > > -- > > LostSon > > > > http://www.lostsonsvault.org -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org Public Key http://www.lostsonsvault.org/dls/lostson.asc
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