Help! Linux can't find my Wireless card!

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Mexican_Pirate · #1 Post by **Mexican_Pirate** » 2005-12-01 22:55

So I installed NDISWRAPPER and downloaded and installed my driver for the Dell AT-1470 Internal Wireless a/b/g card, and it said "Invalid Driver". So then I check iwconfig, and I find out that it doesn't even pick up my wireless card! WTF! Does Linux not support mini-pci cards or something?

Mexican_Pirate · #2 Post by **Mexican_Pirate** » 2005-12-03 17:52

~bump~

Mexican_Pirate · #3 Post by **Mexican_Pirate** » 2005-12-26 02:18

Fine, don't help! I don't need the Internet anyways!

domecq · #4 Post by **domecq** » 2005-12-26 09:30

Boot your computer and run 'dmesg' and 'lspci' and paste both outputs here. They might give a hint on the issue.

Domecq

Mexican_Pirate · #5 Post by **Mexican_Pirate** » 2005-12-26 20:48

Dmesg gave me this:

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debian:~# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f7d3800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001f7d3800 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0007000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000f0008000 - 00000000f000c000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
503MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 128979
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 124883 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                      ) @ 0x000fc9b0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d50615 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x1f7d4425
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d50615 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x1f7d4c00
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d50615 ASL  0x00000047) @ 0x1f7d5400
ACPI: MCFG (v016 DELL    CPi R   0x27d50615 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x1f7d53c0
ACPI: SSDT (v001  PmRef  Cpu0Cst 0x00003001 INTL 0x20030522) @ 0x1f7d4658
ACPI: SSDT (v001  PmRef    CpuPm 0x00003000 INTL 0x20030522) @ 0x1f7d445d
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1496.274 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2981.88 BogoMIPS
Memory: 504356k/515916k available (1069k kernel code, 11172k reserved, 459k data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU:     After generic, caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.50GHz stepping 08
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1496.2458 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.7496 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 997496, slice: 498748
CPU0<T0:997488,T1:498736,D:4,S:498748,C:997496>
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbaae, last bus=10
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <info@itc.hu>
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 3692 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 3692k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 96k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide: late registration of driver.
ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
ICH6: chipset revision 3
ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hda: Hitachi HTS541060G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4244N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue e0025b60, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 117210240 sectors (60012 MB) w/7539KiB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 >
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding Swap: 433712k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x00c8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000007
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.3.43-k1
Copyright (c) 2004 Intel Corporation

e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 16:52:03 May 16 2005
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf80, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf60, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf40, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf20, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 16:51:32 May 16 2005
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1e.2 to 64
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xec40 and 0xed00, MEM 0xdfebfe00 and 0xdfebfd00, IRQ 11
i810: Intel ICH4 mmio at 0xe00fbe00 and 0xe00fdd00
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7652 (SigmaTel STAC9752/53)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
i810_rng hardware driver 0.9.8 loaded
hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: PCI device 8086:265c (Intel Corp.)
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem e0108800
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 8 ports detected
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
apm: BIOS not found.

I don't know what the rest of that means, but I do know that that last thing (BIOS not found) isn't good.

Then, this is what lspci gave me:

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lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03)0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4319 (rev 02)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1068 (rev 03)

domecq · #6 Post by **domecq** » 2005-12-27 05:09

Read this post in Ubuntu forum:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-25683.html

It might help you.

Be advised that Ubuntu commands suggested are a bit different in Debian. For example, whenever you see 'sudo', use 'su -' and act as root.

Domecq

Mexican_Pirate · #7 Post by **Mexican_Pirate** » 2005-12-27 07:35

Thanks! I'll have to do it tomorrow, though (OH MY GOD IT'S 2:35 AM!!!).