I don't succeed to install my SMC2802W wireless card

[Shinji Ikari II]

I have a fedora6 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
I insert my SMC2802W wireless card and I load the firmware isl3890 into /lib/firmware but the module prism54 doesn't work ... why?? There is a patch or should I search for a new module?

[alpha645]

You could try it with ndiswrapper. PLUS, you should give:

- Error output
- System logs

[Shinji Ikari II]

When I type these commands I obtain:

>> ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:FE:6A:AF:AA
inet addr:10.50.13.240 Bcast:10.50.13.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::218:feff:fe6a:afaa/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3940 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4086102 (3.8 MiB) TX bytes:1843308 (1.7 MiB)
Interrupt:169

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3545920 (3.3 MiB) TX bytes:3545920 (3.3 MiB)
>> iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200
Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

>> ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied

[Shinji Ikari II]

I have installed ndiswrapper

>>ndiswrapper -l
2802w : driver installed
device (1260:3890) present
2802w98 : driver installed
device (1260:3890) present
2802wme : driver installed
device (1260:3890) present
2802wxp : driver installed
device (1260:3890) present

but when I load the module
>>dmesg
ndiswrapper: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.

and with iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

and now what can I do????!!!??

[leigh123linux]

you could try this, but remove the other ndis module first

su -
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/l...6-1.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-ndiswrapper ndiswrapper

[Shinji Ikari II]

This warning is serious??
>>sudo rpm -i livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
warning: livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a1
09b1ec

and I need to upadte my kernel (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 to1.2.6.20_1.2925.fc6) otherwhse kmod-ndiswrapper ins't compatible...

>>rpm -i kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.38-1.2.6.20_1.2925.fc6.i686.rpm
warning: kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.38-1.2.6.20_1.2925.fc6.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
error: Failed dependencies:
kernel-i686 = 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6PAE is needed by kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.38-1.2.6.20_1.2925.fc6.i686
ndiswrapper-kmod-common >= 1.38 is needed by kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.38-1.2.6.20_1.2925.fc6.i686

[leigh123linux]

The warning is just to say the package is unsigned , it is a release key for the livna repo

yes you will need to update the kernel , but if you use this method the module will be updated everytime a new kernel is released.

[Shinji Ikari II]

STOP all !!! My problem is different because before updating my kernel I have tryed to reinstall my card with ndiswrapper and when I use sudo modprobe ndiswrapper I obtain a SEGMENTATION FAULT


and with dmesg

ndiswrapper: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8d873a0
printing eip:
c043a367
*pde = 37e54067
Oops: 0002 [#1]
SMP
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/class
Modules linked in: i915 drm autofs4 hidp l2cap bluetooth sunrpc acpi_cpufreq fre
q_table dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod video sbs i2c_ec i2c_core button battery a
c ipv6 parport_pc lp parport floppy snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_seq_dummy sn
d_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq sg snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss intel_rng snd
_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc ide_cd cdrom tg3 pcspk
r serio_raw ata_piix libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c043a367>] Tainted: GF VLI
EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1)
EIP is at sys_init_module+0xb15/0x1974
eax: f8d873a0 ebx: f8d1e0c4 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
esi: f8d01000 edi: f8d86220 ebp: 0000001c esp: f091bed0
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 3774, ti=f091b000 task=f7eab630 task.ti=f091b000)
Stack: f8d1d6c0 c065d134 00012000 f8992cc0 f091bef8 f05a4540 f8d86220 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010 f8d2a3a4 f45e29e0
Call Trace:
[<c0404027>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Leftover inexact backtrace:
=======================
Code: 74 02 f3 a4 89 53 0c 45 83 c3 28 8b 74 24 70 0f b7 46 30 39 c5 72 a2 8b 7c
24 64 31 d2 8b 7f 0c 89 f8 05 80 11 00 00 89 7c 24 18 <89> 87 80 11 00 00 89 40
04 2d 00 10 00 00 42 c7 00 00 00 00 00
EIP: [<c043a367>] sys_init_module+0xb15/0x1974 SS:ESP 0068:f091bed0
<3>BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:20
in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1
[<c0405876>] dump_trace+0x69/0x1af
[<c04059d4>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c
[<c0405f83>] show_trace+0xf/0x11
[<c0406080>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
[<c043527e>] down_read+0x12/0x20
[<c042d420>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x29
[<c0423411>] do_exit+0x1b/0x776
[<c0405f24>] die+0x298/0x2bd
[<c060cdbc>] do_page_fault+0x425/0x507
[<c04051e9>] error_code+0x39/0x40
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at error_code+0x39/0x40
Leftover inexact backtrace:
[<c046007b>] vwrite+0x7f/0x80
[<c043a367>] sys_init_module+0xb15/0x1974
[<c046adf8>] do_sync_read+0x0/0xfb
[<c046b84e>] vfs_read+0xa6/0x15d
[<c046bcc5>] sys_read+0x41/0x67
[<c0404027>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
=======================

now the only way is to upgrade the kernel?