[Comm-en] Aetheros Card (D-Link DWL 650)

[Richard Hainsworth]

Attached is full output from lspci -v

Last entry is: 
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 3202
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at 18800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Richard

On Чтв, 2004-07-01 at 15:03, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:37:59AM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> > I have a new D-Link pcmcia card which has the Aethoros chip set. My
> > distro is Compact 2.3
> > 
> > I used cardctl to get the card information to get
> > PRODID_1="Atheros Communications, Inc."
> > PRODID_2="AR5001-0000-0000"
> > PRODID_3="Wireless LAN Reference Card"
> > PRODID_4="00"
> > MANFID=0271,0012
> > FUNCID=6
> > 
> > Then I updated the file /etc/pcmcia/config with
> > card "Atheros Communications, Inc."
> > manfid 0271,0012
> > bind airo_cs
> 
> I don't see this PCI ID in the madwifi driver:
>         { 0x168c, 0x0007, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0x168c, 0x0012, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0x168c, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
>         { 0xa727, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com */
>         { 0x10b7, 0x0013, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },     /* 3com	3CRDAG675 */
>         { 0x168c, 0x1014, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },	/* IBM minipci 5212 */
> 
> 
> Could you run pciscan -v and send its output here?
> 
> > However, I doubt the driver is right.
> > 
> > The following instructions are part of a receipe I found on the net for
> > redhat 
> > 
> > cd /lib/modules/{kernel}/madwifi
> > insnode wlan.o
> > insnode ath_hal.o
> > insnode ath_pci.o
> > 
> > The first two exit without error but the last produces the error on
> > stderr and a message in dmesg
> > 
> > ath_pci.o: init_module: No such device
> > 
> > and using dmesg:
> > ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com>)
> > ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
> You don't need to do so. In fact, most work would be something like this:
> 1. Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 as regular for network
> interfaces:
> 	
> DEVICE=ath0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=no
> WIRELESS_ESSID="wireless"
> 
> 2. Install hotplug package. It would allow you to automatically execute
> interface creation during card insert (and shut the interface down when
> card is removed).
> 
> 3. Make sure that your PCI ID for the card is known by the driver. I would
> suggest you to send pciscan -v output here first and then we'll decide how
> to go.