Wi-fi MA521 PCMCIA card

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Sat Jan 21 14:13:15 EST 2006


Hi,

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:37:42AM +0100, stefano-linux.it wrote:
> excluding????
THat's only related to 16-bit PCMCIA cards, but the WLAN card you're using
is a 32-bit CardBus card:

> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b 
> MAC (rev 20)
>         Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4700
>         Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
>         Region 0: I/O ports at 4400 [disabled] [size=256]
>         Region 1: Memory at 28800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
> [size=512]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

which is correctly recognized and set up by the PCMCIA subsystem.

> I am not able to get this card working, ifconfig and iwconfig don't display 
> any wireless device.

However, you still need to load an appropriate driver for this WLAN device.
Only then you'll be able to see it in iwconfig and ifconfig.

	Dominik



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