Mathew Branyon wrote: > Petri Laihonen wrote: > >> Mepis reminded me of my wireless problems.... >> I have ThinkPad z60t, and all the necessary stuff works with mepis >> except the integrated wireless. >> >> Integrated wireless uses atheros chipset, but hardware "can not be >> found". If I stick in PCMCIA wireless, with same atheros chipset, the >> network card can be found, but I lose the ability to browse the web via >> eth0 and wireless would not work. Who knows why that happens..... I yank >> the PCMCIA card out and browsing continues. If the PCMCIA card is >> inserted when booting up, then it works. >> >> My mepis forum post about the problem here http://www.mepis.org/node/9192 >> >> Any additional pointers are appreciated. >> >> BTW. I did try ndiswrapper route as well, but no luck. (dunno if I did >> it right though.....) >> >> Petri >> > What does #lspci tell you? I know that on a fresh install, my card isnt > properly detected, but i run the script called update-pciids as root, > and it finds it no problem. maybe this would work for yoU? > > _______________________________________________ > >
Here are the differences between the two WiFi devices reported by lspci -vv -------------------------------------------------------------- Internal Wireless Network Adapter (DOES NOT WORK) ------------------------------------------------- 0000:13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 058a Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 58 Region 0: Memory at a7f00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 00000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [60] #10 [0011] Capabilities: [90] #11 [0000] PCMCI Card (Netgear WG511U) (WORKS!) ------------------------------------ 0000:15:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4f00 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x20 (128 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 201 Region 0: Memory at a8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- As you can see, they are almost identical. (but not quite enough.....) I'll try the "update-pciids" just in case. Additionally I was wondering if the hardware can be used by forcing a system to utilize "a device" somehow inputting in some config file all the indicated IRQ and memory adressess. Petri
