Wireless card problem

[Kasper]

I am having problems installing my NetGear wireless card. It supports 802.11/g and I downloaded the acx100 driver for it and have followed the instructions for installing it. However, I don't know what it's MAC address is and "probing" with the GUI networking tool doesn't find anything. Does anyone have any ideas?

Here's some info on my setup (the MAC address for wlan0 was found on the networking card):

[root@lotus network-scripts]# lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache] (rev a1)
05:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 1faa (rev 03)
[root@lotus network-scripts]# lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0580: 10de:005e (rev a3)
00:01.0 Class 0601: 10de:0050 (rev a3)
00:01.1 Class 0c05: 10de:0052 (rev a2)
00:02.0 Class 0c03: 10de:005a (rev a2)
00:02.1 Class 0c03: 10de:005b (rev a3)
00:04.0 Class 0401: 10de:0059 (rev a2)
00:06.0 Class 0101: 10de:0053 (rev a2)
00:07.0 Class 0101: 10de:0054 (rev a3)
00:08.0 Class 0101: 10de:0055 (rev a3)
00:09.0 Class 0604: 10de:005c (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Class 0680: 10de:0057 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 Class 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
00:0c.0 Class 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
00:0d.0 Class 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
00:0e.0 Class 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
00:18.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0161 (rev a1)
05:07.0 Class 0c00: 104c:8023
05:0a.0 Class 0200: 11ab:1faa (rev 03)
[root@lotus network-scripts]# ifup wlan0
Device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
[root@lotus network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-wlan0
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Managed
RATE=11M
CHANNEL=6
ESSID=linksys
USE_DHCP=1
HWADDR=00:0f:b5:8b:8f:ba
ESSID=any

[rabah]

I am getting the same exact error msg...

the only difference i have is that im not getting a hardware address in the ifcfg-wlan0 ...

when i run ifconfig --> i only get the lo

It seems as if the driver is there but hardware and software not communicating in correct way ?

Did you solve your problem yet ? ill let you know if i find out anytthing ...

[Kasper]

Well, I discovered that ndiswrapper seems to be the best route. Try that with your card, didn't work with mine but I bought a new one that worked with it. Hope it works for you.

[blue_chip_dave]

ndiswrapper is good for this kind of thing, but it doesnt work on its own.

go to linuxant.com, and download the right kernel for your machine. they've changed the stack to 16k instead of 4k, which solves most problems with wireless cards anyways.

if they havent got your kernel, get the next one up, but be prepared to sort out the dependancies manually (takes a while)

then install your kernel, its an rpm, so al you need to do is type

rpm -ivh 'kernel'

when your'e in the right directory.

then go to your folder with ndiswrapper in, and after extracting etc. type

make
make install

you should then be able to go applications -> system settings -> network and get your pc online.

hope this helps

[Kasper]

Thanks, but I actually got it to work. It was the fact that I'm 64 bit that was the problem.

But does anyone know if it's supposed to be really slow? I have an okay signal, but I think ndiswrapper is slow talking to the driver and the driver is then slow talking to the card. Has anyone else experienced this kind of problem?