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can someone reports if any of prism2_plx, prism2_pci or orinoco_pci works with
that card ?
if yes, which one should we set for this card ?
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I have an Elitegroup Green 732 notebook (ECS G732, cf.
http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/g732_spec.htm) with an integrated Actiontec
miniPCI 802.11b adapter (cf.
http://www.actiontec.com/products/broadband/80211bminipci/80211bminipci.pdf).
The same wlan device is commonly used in IBM notebooks (cf. e.g.
http://www.balukoff.com/~stephen/a30p/ where descriptions of how to get the wlan
device to work with linux are given).
There is also an integrated SiS900 10/100 Ethernet controller (assigned to eth0;
the installation process assigns the wlan device to eth1).
/proc/pci identifies the wlan device as:
Bus 0, device 5, function 0:
Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 1).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8006000 [0xe8006fff].
The vendor device code is 1260:3873
During installation (or later, in DrakConnect), the device is set up with the
orinoco_pci kernel module. The module is loaded without incident, but once the
system tries connect to the device (e.g. during the installation's network
configuration step, unless one skips this step), the system locks up completely,
requiring a hard reset (as everything is installed already, MDK 9.1 boots OK
afterwards - but without internet connection set up, even on eth0).
According to http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html
under the header "Issues and release notes", Prism2.5 PCI cards are not
supported and neither are miniPCI based on the PCI card (and not using a
PCI-PCMCIA bridge).
SuSE 8.1 does the same thing as MDK 9.1 as regards identification of the wlan
device and (erroneous) relation to orinoco_pci, but as the SuSE installation
only attempts to configure the "main" ethernet controller (i.e. no attempt is
made to setting up the wlan device), the result is not as disastrous (at least
for a newbie linux user!) as with the MDK 9.1 installation. Red Hat 9 doesn't
seem to include any wlan kernel modules at all, so RH9 simply ignores the wlan
device.
As MDK 9.1 comes with the linux-wlan-ng kernel modules as well (prism2_pci
etc.), I tried to modprobe prism2_pci - however getting the error described by
another user (with the same wlan device) here:
http://www.nclug.org/pipermail/nclug/2003-January/004856.html
Perhaps the system assumes a PCI-PCMCIA bridge device rather than a "native" PCI
device?
A _temporary_ solution to the problem, would be to make a patch to the MDK 9.1
installation (and HardDrake / DrakConnect) so that it _ignores_ the device
rather than attempting to use the orinoco drivers (which locks up the system). A
_permanent_ solution would be to configure the linux-wlan-ng or, possibly, the
host-ap driver to work with the device.
