Re: probs with a Linksys WUSB11 ver2.8 in Mandrake...

Derek Jennings wrote:

>On Monday 02 Feb 2004 7:49 pm, Ryan Mueller wrote:
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>>>Did you try removing the old Mandrake supplied drivers completely?
>>>They should be in /lib/modules/2.4.22-26mdk/kernel/3rdparty/at76c503
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>>I tried removing the drivers located in
>>/lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/kernel/3rdparty/at76c503/, per suggestion, but
>>the only thing that does is get an insmod at76c505_rfmd2958 error during
>>startup, if I remember correctly. Wouldn't the drivers contained in the
>>at76c503 directory be the Berlios drivers I installed? As far as I can
>>guess the Mandrake drivers would be in
>>/lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlandriver, but those are
>>blacklisted. Didn't seem to have helped. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
>>
>>Ryan
>>[email protected]
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>Mandrake 9.2 contains both the atmelwlan driver and the at76c503a driver
>When you compile the at76c503a driver 'make install' will put it into a 
>different location to where Mandrake has them. They will go in
>/lib/modules/2.4.22-26mdk/kernel/drivers/usb
>If you remove any driver then do depmod -a afterwards
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There's my lack o' knowledge kicking in. Did not know about the depmod 
command, or that I had to run it. It helped. Now when I dmesg it shows 
that it's DL'ing the firmware for the device, and it recognizes it and 
registers it as wlan0. It still doesn't show up in the USB Devices 
windows thats in the Configuration/KDE/Information menu (I think that's 
where it's located).

On the reboot following the depmod-ing, it gave me an error message 
along the lines of a problem with the key argument being set to no in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0. I changed it from KEY=no to 
KEY="" and that fixed that problem. No, when starting up, shortly after 
it starts checking module dependencies it prints an error message saying 
"Determining IP information for wlan0........failed......no link 
present, check cable". I will repost the contents of my network files 
for reference:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 consists of:
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
KEY=""
WIRELESS_RATE=11M
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID=linksys

/etc/sysconfig/network is:
NETWORKING=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
GATEWAYDEV=wlan0

There is nothing wrong with the physical connection. I didn't touch it, 
and I'm using it to mail this through XP right now. Making some 
progress.......

Ryan