Re: Sony PCWA-C150 wireless LAN card: which driver?
"Louis" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.hardware.sony |
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I have a PRISM2 based card working with the drivers from http://linux-wlan.org. I don't think orinoco_cs supports PRISM chipsets, but I could be wrong about this. Louis > Hi -- > > I'm trying to get the wireless LAN card that came with my PCG-GRX616MP > Vaio working. > > cardctl ident gives: > product info: "Sony Corporation", "PCWA-C150", "Version 01.01", "" > manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 > function: 6 (network) > > I'm using Gentoo linux and have followed the usual instructions. I've > tried all the drivers from the pcmcia-cs package and get this message: > Jul 8 16:36:05 [kernel] Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.4 > Jul 8 16:36:05 [kernel] Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe: > Jul 8 16:36:05 [cardmgr] watching 2 sockets > Jul 8 16:36:05 [cardmgr] starting, version is 3.2.4 > Jul 8 16:36:06 [cardmgr] socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless > Adapter Jul 8 16:36:06 [kernel] cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: > clean. Jul 8 16:36:06 [cardmgr] executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs' > Jul 8 16:36:06 [cardmgr] bind 'orinoco_cs' to socket 0 failed: > Operation not permitted > > lsmod gives: > Module Size Used by Not tainted > orinoco_cs 4756 0 (unused) > orinoco 38412 0 [orinoco_cs] > hermes 6596 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco] > ds 7432 2 [orinoco_cs] > i82365 41408 2 > pcmcia_core 44384 0 [orinoco_cs ds i82365] > > I get "Operation not permitted" with all the drivers I've tried. > Needless to say, the card does not appear as wlan0 or eth1 in ifconfig. > Googling this error message finds lots of questions but no answers :-( > > Has anyone got this card working under Linux? If so, which driver did > you use? > > Thanks, > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-sony mailing list: [email protected] > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://returntonature.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-sony Linux-Sony > Documentation: http://returntonature.com/linux/phpwiki