Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Quoting Jim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> This relates to the youngster I am trying to help get into Linux
>> and get networking going.  I reported earlier we are using the
>> Netgear WPN311 wireless PCI card.  Here is what lspci -vn -d 168c:
>> reports:
>>
>> 00:0c.0 0200: 168c:ff16 (rev 01)
>>    Flags: busmaster, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ11
>>          memory at e41200000 (32 bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64k]
>>          Capabilities: [44] Power management version 6
>>
>> 00:0c.1 0700: 168c:ff96 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
>>    Subsystem: 168c:ec96
>>    Flags: busmaster, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ16
>>    I/O ports at d400 [size=8]
>>    memory at e4131000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>>    Capabilities: [44] Power management version 0 [size=4k]
>>    Kernel driver in use serial
>>
>> (above subject to possible errors in reading my writing instead of
>> writing it to something machine-readable that I can carry around)
>
> That's strange.  I've never heard of Atheros devices with a serial  
> port on board.  And the device ID "ff16" is not in the PCI ID table of  
> the devices supported by ath5k.  There is nothing even remotely close  
> to that.  Yet the memory size is correct, even the device class is  
> "correct" (Atheros uses 0x200, which means Ethernet).  Maybe your  
> lspci is showing something wrong.
>
> Anyway, you device is supported somehow, and the IP configuration  
> issues are not related to the driver.

Googling for the pci id got me http://madwifi.org/ticket/198 which seems
to suggest that it's a hardware compatibility problem.  Is this an old
(pre PCI 2.2) PC?



Bjørn
-- 
You must be a real SysThug to think that Lassie was dead

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