modprobe hostap_pci error with DWL-520 PCI

[David Goodenough]

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:06, Andrea G. Forte wrote:
> The DWL-520 card does not appear in the list of PCI devices when doing
> lspci. When doing the dmesg commamd, I get:

If lspci can not see it, then nothing else can.  Solve that problem and you
should be able to proceed.

David

>
> hostap_crypt: registered algorith 'NULL'
> hostap_pci: 0.0.4 2003-07-27 ..bla bla...
> hostap_pci: no device found, driver not installed
>
> hostap_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' (deinit)
> hostap_crypt: registered algorith 'NULL'
> hostap_pci: 0.0.4 2003-07-27 ..bla bla...
> hostap_pci: no device found, driver not installed
>
> many times following.
>
> The PCI card was installed properely and it seems to be the revision B of
> the chip, which should work (revision C is not compatible with hostap).
> Hope you can help out!
> Andrea
>
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> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Andrea G. Forte wrote:
> > When I type "modprobe hostap_pci", the error I get is:
> >
> > init_module: no such a device
>
> Check the output of dmesg (kernel log) and lspci (list of PCI devices).
> If you have DWL-520 revision C, it's not supported by HostAP.