Michele Mor wrote:
Here the messages
1. lspci
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 74)
this is the wireless card :-
02:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism
Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
there are a handful of wireless chipsets in use like the Prism, Atheros
etc and you can get the same product with different internals.
Looks like your Netgear is a Prism
Finally, here the long results for
dmesg:
[ 21.182392] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:12.0
[ 21.182406] PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.0
[ 21.182418] PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
[ 21.187059] eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xf0008000, 00:c0:9f:22:2d:b8, IRQ 11.
[ 21.187774] eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829
advertising 01e1 Link 40a1.
[ 48.223233] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0a.0 [10cf:10e7]
[ 48.223259] Yenta O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: 00/ea
[ 48.223262] Yenta O2: enabling read prefetch/write burst
[ 48.258861] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 48.350631] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 11
[ 48.350639] Socket status: 30000821
[ 48.362339] irda_init()
[ 48.362387] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[ 48.382818] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 49.022681] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
this is where it starts talking to the WLAN card 02:00.0
[ 53.396248] PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[ 53.396273] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
[ 53.486819] p54: LM86 firmware
[ 53.486828] p54: FW rev 2.7.0.0 - Softmac protocol 4.1
[ 54.408615] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
[ 54.536798] phy0: hwaddr 00:09:5b:c9:8f:c0, isl3890
[ 170.605583] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x40A1
perhaps it's trying to use the wlan before it's up :-
[ 184.229741] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 197.778288] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
should show any boot up activity relevant to the card
-- Don't ask me to find this out!
I'm out of depth.
I'm not far behind :-)
Other inputs welcome !
Will try to plug the card after the boot and let you know what happens.
what attempts to set it up via the GUI have you made ?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCardsNetgear
may be where we're heading next, for example depending on version
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76804
Phil
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