FC2 test 2 and wireless?

[Mark G. Spencer]

Hi Satish,

Thanks for the reply.  I just tested a couple high powered (200mw) 802.11b
PC Card's (in a Gateway 200ARC notebook) and here's what I found:

SMC2532W-B - Every time FC2 test 2 boots, the hardware manager comes up and
says that this card has been "removed."  I've tried "Do Nothing" and also
"Remove Configuration" on different boots and the card is never detected
properly as far as I can tell.  If I remove the card and plug it back in
while the system is running, nothing happens.

Senao 2511CD Plus EXT2 - Works fine, whether the card is plugged in before
boot or plugged in while system is running.  Orinoco driver is used.

Strange thing is, I think both of these cards use the same chipset?  They
both work fine in other distros, so possibly something bad/buggy is going on
with the SMC2532W-B in FC2 test 2.  I'm not that great with Linux though, so
I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this for a meaningful bug report.

Mark 

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Satish Balay
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:15 PM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: Re: FC2 test 2 and wireless?



On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Mark G. Spencer wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could share their experience with FC2 test 
> 2 and wireless.  Specifically,
> 
> 1.)  What wireless driver is being used for Prism2/2.5/3 chipsets?  If 
> Orinoco, is it the latest alpha w/ monitor mode included?  Or the last 
> release with monitor mode patch?

I have a lucent wavelan silver card (prism-1 ?) It used to work with rawhide
kernels with orinoco_cs driver. Currently it doesn't work with
kernel-2.6.4-1.305.  The driver get loaded - but the lights on the card
don't blink.. Hmm..

> 
> 2.)  How difficult is it to install madwifi for Atheros chipsets?  Is 
> there a RPM to do this?

Installation is easy - get the cvs (as per instructions at madwifi
website) and do : 'make; make install'

However the latest cvs doesn't work with the 2.6 kernel for me (network
activity stopps after a while). And unloading the driver gives 'segfault'.

Satish


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