[plug] [Fwd: wireless card not recognised at boot]

[Adrian Chadd]

Well, the first step is to establish whether its a USB type device,
or a removable PCI type device, or a bona fide wired PCI device.
You can use stuff like lspci or the equivalent usb command to grab
information about the device.

That'll tell you whether the device is even visible to the bus nexus -
if you can't find it there then you probably won't have any luck getting
a driver to work. ;)

Once you've got that information I'd contact the device driver maintainer
and see if they've got any insight into the issue.

Don't stop now - this is just part of the fun. :)


Adrian


On Mon, Feb 11, 2008, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 07:02 +0900, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> -snip-
> 
> > > Thanks, Patrick. With the '-a' option it only additionally showed
> > > 'sit0', which googling tells me is the "generic tunnel device "sit0"".
> > > This fits because the first line for it says "Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4"
> > 
> > Hmm, ok. One thing that would be interesting would be to compare the
> > output of the 'dmesg' command when it works and when it doesn't. If
> > you're not familiar with it, dmesg prints out the kernel messages
> > since boot and will give you information on hardware detection etc.
> 
> ahh, another post on this topic ... nice to know the problem is
> occupying a part at the back of some people's mind :-)
> 
> Hi Patrick, am familiar with the usefulness of dmesg, thanks, and will
> do as you say - if I can. Sadly the onboard wireless never comes up
> these days. It was a cruel taunting of the lappie's capabilities when it
> did come up sometimes in the past. Funny thing was it it first showed
> itself straight after I installed the newest madwifi package, but then
> it was a flaky hit-or-miss. For a long time time now, not a peep out of
> it :-(  I've even done as suggested by one forum and tried the
> ndiswrapper package instead of madwifi, but no greater success :-(
> 
> Since the system setup knows the card is there, but no amount of
> modprob-ing or similar will initiate it, I am beginning to suspect that
> software is at fault. I must just have one make of chipset that doesn't
> work with linux :-( Can't tell you about its performance under windows,
> because I wiped the hard drive completely when I got the lappie.
> 
> Gavin.     
> 
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