From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754791AbZCQElT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:41:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751486AbZCQElE (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:41:04 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:12786 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751403AbZCQElC (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:41:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ocBsOc3oAop8a7QiUdCqy92g3BQ0kl3OMUqDhD158nOp8jlJ65jqGDp4zbpTRu2vcO NTjsS4zHIABQDr5ogycq4IE5lz/CPyrw2NtyvLvfagRCORsVaYKa83l3TXxRxO2gN+0A l4D0WcwDTrY8Ww7CrCHK1GK636/gpVFSVFS+I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:41:00 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: w35und driver unusable From: luoyi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello, I'm trying to run Slackware-current on my AMTEK T700 UMPC box. and from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=664458 I know that the my box's wifi is WinBound's products. I'm currently running kernel 2.6.28.7 now and have modprobed w35und. and I also have a linksys usb wireless card on the USB port. Now, the situation is Linksys's card can just work well. and the Winbound card can't . wlan1 is the WinBound card: root@t700:~# dmesg |grep wlan1 udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready root@t700:~# iwlist wlan1 scan wlan1 No scan results root@t700:~# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:FC:7E:57:51 ESSID:"default" Mode:Master Channel:5 Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5) Quality=56/100 Signal level:-22 dBm Encryption key:off IE: Unknown: 000764656661756C74 IE: Unknown: 010882848B968C929824 IE: Unknown: 030105 IE: Unknown: 0406000200000000 IE: Unknown: 2A0100 IE: Unknown: 3204B048606C Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:tsf=00000035772ec17e Extra: Last beacon: 52ms ago does this mean that the winbound drivers in the kernel tree is not ready for use ? or do we have any idea for make it work ?