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[Martin Partridge]

Hello,

I don't understand the last 2 steps, i'm running fedora (ok i lie its  
Fuduntu, but to all intents and purposes its fedora) Kernel version:  
2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686
i'm using a WG511v2 PCMCIA card, i've downloaded the correct firmware,  
renamed it and modprobed everything as instructed, the bit i'm having  
trouble with is this bit:

Enabling p54

To enable p54, you must first enable mac80211:

Networking Support --->
   Wireless  --->
     <M> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API
     <M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)

You can then enable p54 in the kernel configuration under

Device Drivers  --->
   [*] Network device support  --->
         Wireless LAN --->
           [*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
           <M>   Softmac Prism54 support
           <M>     Prism54 USB support
           <M>     Prism54 PCI support
           <M>     Prism54 SPI (stlc45xx) support

where do i type this, or what does it mean? I i don't have a 'networking  
support' menu and it's not a program, where do i find this? is it a conf  
file? I'm no stranger to linux but this is perplexing, the card works fine  
on windows, but i can't get it work now. I have a kernel config file in  
/etc/sysconfig but its a bit bare, as shown below:

# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes

# DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel

That's the whole thing.

How do i enable p54 and mac80211, i'm not sure and its bloody annoying.

regards

Martin Partridge

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Re: help

[Christian Lamparter]

On Friday, July 29, 2011 01:33:13 AM Martin Partridge wrote:
> I don't understand the last 2 steps, i'm running fedora (ok i lie its  
> Fuduntu, but to all intents and purposes its fedora) Kernel version:  
> 2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686
recent enough. 

> i'm using a WG511v2 PCMCIA card, i've downloaded the correct firmware,  
> renamed it and modprobed everything as instructed, the bit i'm having  
> trouble with is this bit:
> 
> Enabling p54
> 
> To enable p54, you must first enable mac80211:
> 
> Networking Support --->
>    Wireless  --->
>      <M> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API
>      <M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
> 
> You can then enable p54 in the kernel configuration under
> 
> Device Drivers  --->
>    [*] Network device support  --->
>          Wireless LAN --->
>            [*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
>            <M>   Softmac Prism54 support
>            <M>     Prism54 USB support
>            <M>     Prism54 PCI support
>            <M>     Prism54 SPI (stlc45xx) support
> 
> where do i type this, or what does it mean? I i don't have a 'networking  
> support' menu and it's not a program, where do i find this? is it a conf  
> file? I'm no stranger to linux but this is perplexing, the card works fine  
> on windows, but i can't get it work now. I have a kernel config file in  
> /etc/sysconfig but its a bit bare, as shown below:
> 
> # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
> # new kernels the default
> UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
> 
> # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
> DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
> 
> That's the whole thing.
> 
> How do i enable p54 and mac80211, i'm not sure and its bloody annoying.
Ah you see, you don't need to do that. This step is only necessary if you
make your own kernel [from scratch] and you haven't enabled p54 yet. But
since your using fedora's default 2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686 kernel, I hope they
have taken care of it and provided you with a fitting p54common and p54pci
modules.

In fact, the device should show up right away soon as you insert the pcmcia
card into the slot. Check networkmanager/wicd/ifconfig -a/iw list for any
new devices. If it doesn't show up, you might want to post your `dmesg`,
[releavant p54 extract] syslog right here. I also have a WG511v2 so it should
work pretty much out of the box.

Regards,
	Chr

Re: help with wg511v2

[Christian Lamparter]

On Saturday 30 July 2011 05:36:09 Martin Partridge wrote:
> I've checked everything and the WG511v2 is still not lighting up and it
> isn't showing as a network card, it is detected when plugged in:
> 
> [13523.594828] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: card ejected from slot 0
> [13524.917077] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
> [13524.917132] pci 0000:02:00.0: [11ab:1faa] type 0 class 0x000200
> [13524.917176] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff]
> [13524.917200] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 14: [mem 0xc0000000-0xc000ffff]
>...
> and when the output from lspci is:
> 
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro
> 100 (rev 09)
> 00:09.1 Serial controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
    ^^^^^^^

Ah, this explains it everything. You are unfortunately a victim of Netgear's stupid
naming scam. The situation is explained at http://daemonizer.de/prism54/wg511/ 
The upshot is: there are two WG511 v2 versions, but only the first v2 works with
p54. The second one needs a driver from marvell.

Regards,
	Chr

Re: help with wg511v2

[Pavel Roskin]

On 07/30/2011 07:12 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2011 05:36:09 Martin Partridge wrote:
>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
>      ^^^^^^^
>
> Ah, this explains it everything. You are unfortunately a victim of Netgear's stupid
> naming scam. The situation is explained at http://daemonizer.de/prism54/wg511/
> The upshot is: there are two WG511 v2 versions, but only the first v2 works with
> p54. The second one needs a driver from marvell.

The driver is called mrv8k, but it's not in the Linux tree, not even in 
staging.  I don't know why.  Perhaps it's not functional.

Several pages recommend disabling mrv8k and using ndiswrapper with 
Windows drivers.  Until ndiswrapper 1.57 is released, you'll need the 
current snapshot from subversion, as ndiswrapper 1.56 doesn't compile 
for Linux 2.6.35 and newer.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

Re: help

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

Please use meaningful subjects for the list posts.

On 07/28/2011 07:33 PM, Martin Partridge wrote:
>
> I don't understand the last 2 steps, i'm running fedora (ok i lie its
> Fuduntu, but to all intents and purposes its fedora) Kernel version:
> 2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686

Please always give information about the location of the documentation 
if you have any problems with it.

> Enabling p54
>
> To enable p54, you must first enable mac80211:

I used Google and found this text on the linux-wireless wiki:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/p54

I rephrased the text to make it more clear that it only applied to 
configuring the kernel.

Since you are using a precompiled kernel, you don't have that option.

> I have a kernel config
> file in /etc/sysconfig but its a bit bare, as shown below:

That's something totally different.  The wiki talks about compile-time 
configuration.

> How do i enable p54 and mac80211, i'm not sure and its bloody annoying.

You only need to check if the modules are present in the kernel you are 
using.  You can do that by running "modprobe p54".

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

Re: help

[Pavel Roskin]

On 07/28/2011 11:12 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> You only need to check if the modules are present in the kernel you are
> using. You can do that by running "modprobe p54".

Sorry, it should be "modproble p54pci" for PCI cards and "modprobe 
p54usb" for USB devices.  I checked Fuduntu, and it has both drivers. 
It doesn't have the firmware, but I guess you have no problems with that 
part of the instructions.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin