Wireless installation (VIA VT6656USB.)

[uativan]

I have brought a computer embedded with wireless device.

I follow the steps to start install the driver. However, I got a problem:

Copy driver (vntwusb.tgz) from DOS disk, (mcopy below is one tool in
mtools, if you didn't install mtools, you can type
'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt' and use 'cp /mnt/vntwusb.tgz /temp'
command to copy the driver to the temporary directory):
mcopy a:vntwusb.tgz .

I want to know what is the DOS disk? or where could I found the vntwusb.tgz?

I am first time to install driver, please kindly give me any suggestions. Thanks.

[scottro]

Take a look at http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/rhhw.html, primarily running the command

lspci

and letting us know the line that gives information about the wireless device. There's a very good chance it it will show up there, usually in the last 3 or 4 lines.

That will tell you how to let us know the make of the card, which will help folks help you.

There's a good chance you won't need that driver, depending upon the make of card.

[uativan]

Take a look at http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/rhhw.html, primarily running the command

lspci

and letting us know the line that gives information about the wireless device. There's a very good chance it it will show up there, usually in the last 3 or 4 lines.

That will tell you how to let us know the make of the card, which will help folks help you.

There's a good chance you won't need that driver, depending upon the make of card.

Thanks for your reply.

lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:08.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700M2 IDE
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 90)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 90)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 90)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 90)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Internal Module Bus
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700 Host Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700M2 UniChrome PRO II Graphics (rev 03)
03:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)


It seems no wireless device. What does that means? Driver not installed or no device?

[scottro]

Hrrm, Ok, what does the WIndows Device Manager say about the card?

[bbfuller]

Hello uativan

You could also try the output of:

/sbin/lsusb

Not often, but just sometimes, you see USB devices embedded in the motherboard.

[uativan]

I have reinstall the OS to Fedora 10. It found a pan0 ethernet with no description.

Hrrm, Ok, what does the WIndows Device Manager say about the card?

I installed the device manager but nothing seems to be the wireless card.

Hello uativan

You could also try the output of:

/sbin/lsusb

Not often, but just sometimes, you see USB devices embedded in the motherboard.

Yes, it is USB embedded but seems not detected.

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 152e:e003 LG (HLDS)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT69a Pilot Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

many thanks!

[Iron_Mike]

It seems that even windows doesn't pickup your wireless device, are you sure you even have one? How do you know which drivers to install if you can't determine what brand your device is? Did your computer come with a wireless device driver disk? Is there a hardware or software switch that needs to be activated to enable your wireless device.

Mike

[bbfuller]

Hello uativan

It's odd, every thing else seems to be picked up, for example the "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 152e:e003 LG (HLDS)" refers to a camera. I did a search on "152e:e003".

I don't know where you go from here. Does your computer have a known make and model number?

[uativan]

It seems that even windows doesn't pickup your wireless device, are you sure you even have one? How do you know which drivers to install if you can't determine what brand your device is? Did your computer come with a wireless device driver disk? Is there a hardware or software switch that needs to be activated to enable your wireless device.

Mike

I have opened thebox and checked the wireless card is embedded inside. It is VIA VT6656USB.

The supplier gave me an driver disk with linux driver, I want to make install the driver but don't know what is the "DOS disk" in one of the steps which is the problem I stated at top.

No switch.

Thanks.

[uativan]

Hello uativan

It's odd, every thing else seems to be picked up, for example the "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 152e:e003 LG (HLDS)" refers to a camera. I did a search on "152e:e003".

I don't know where you go from here. Does your computer have a known make and model number?

Device 004 is an external DVD writer. I brought the computer from winmate model is V270SB7-301.

Thanks.

[scottro]

Ok, I've added the card model to the thread title--this makes it more likely to catch the attention of someone with experience with the card.

[uativan]

Ok, I've added the card model to the thread title--this makes it more likely to catch the attention of someone with experience with the card.

Thanks a lot.

[Loki1950]

Just did a google/linux on VT6656 and it appears that is a new version of the driver that is GPL'd and available at this http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86.zip place do that google search your self as there is a bit of history involved as a previous version non GPL'd would not load into recent kernels ;)

[uativan]

Just did a google/linux on VT6656 and it appears that is a new version of the driver that is GPL'd and available at this http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86.zip place do that google search your self as there is a bit of history involved as a previous version non GPL'd would not load into recent kernels ;)

Inside this zip file, there is a Linux.txt.

In step 2 of installation,

2) Copy driver (vntwusb.tgz) from DOS disk, (mcopy below is one tool in
mtools, if you didn't install mtools, you can type
'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt' and use 'cp /mnt/vntwusb.tgz /temp'
command to copy the driver to the temporary directory):
mcopy a:vntwusb.tgz .

I don't know what to do with this steps. Thanks.

[Loki1950]

I do believe that you can skip that step as the source code is already extracted so just skip steps 1. 2.and 3 and i notice that there is no step 4 ;) and from the contents of that folder should be just make and make sure you have the kernel source/headers installed as you are building a kernel module which is what a driver is in Linux that readme file is most likely the original and never updated.I have to go off to work ATM but will be back later so if you have problems please post them.If not me some other member should be able to walk you through the rest of the procedure now that we actually have the source code.And you may want to write it down some place as you will need to it again when ever there is a kernel update.