dirtbiker Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I'm new to linux, and i've managed to install Ubuntu Warty on an old Gericom T3 laptop. I've got everything working and am on the net through my wired LAN. The laptop is a 900mhz Celeron, with 120mb ram and a 10gb HDD. Basically i've got a Twinmos B-Series WIFI PCMCIA card that i want to use with this laptop to set up an ad-hoc network with my other laptop (running XP) Ive used the wifi card with the gericom laptop before, under windows 98, so i know it works. I've installed drivers using ndiswrapper and on typing "ndiswrapper -l" i am presented with:"Installed ndis drivers: net8180 hardware NOT present" The strange thing is that the card is listed in the hardware manager as being connected. Any help/input appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 This may not be the best place for a quick answer try some different linux forums or search for your distro and go from there, many people wont have experience with that distro on here. But im sure our mr delusional ( Local forum Linux geek :wink2:" ) might be able to help pinky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtbiker Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Yeah, cheers Pinky. I've posted it on the Ubuntu forum and on Bit-Tech, but no-one ever replies, whereas here at least someone will read it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 You read this? http://higgs.djpig.de/ubuntu/www/warty/base/pcmcia-cs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtbiker Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 (edited) No, i haven't, will try it now and edit this post with a result. I already have that package installed, will just try some of the others. Thanks Danny! Edited February 15, 2005 by dirtbiker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtbiker Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I've installed all the packages that that page reccomended, no improvement :- I also watched the Device Manager as i unplugged and re-plugged in the card, and it definately knows its there. :wink2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Hummmmm you tried playing with ifupdown. Or set that as the primary network adaptor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusional Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I've installed drivers using ndiswrapper and on typing "ndiswrapper -l" i am presented with:"Installed ndis drivers: net8180 hardware NOT present" ← Hmm, ndiswrapper seems to be only for cards that don't have 'proper' linux support - according to the list here your card isn't supported by ndiswrapper. Although frankly I'd not reccomend using ndiswrapper if you can help it anyway. I've not got personal experience with it, but you're always better using native Linux software for your cards rather than trying to load windows drivers into a wrapper. You want to find which native module supports your cards chipset, try googling for the cards model number and 'linux' and you should turn some stuff up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtbiker Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Yeah, my card has native linux drivers, but they're for old Red-Hat kernels, and no-one i've read about has managed to get them to work with ubuntu, thats why i went for the ndiswrapper option. I think the problem is with the way Ubuntu is dealing with the PCI card...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusional Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Yeah, my card has native linux drivers, but they're for old Red-Hat kernels, and no-one i've read about has managed to get them to work with ubuntu, thats why i went for the ndiswrapper option. I think the problem is with the way Ubuntu is dealing with the PCI card...? ← It could be, pcmcia can be a bit of a pig at times (at least it was a year or so ago when I was last playing with it). Is your wired LAN a pcmcia card or built in? If you're still trying to use ndiswrapper though I suspect the problem is that your card isn't supported, unless I've missed some information somewhere that says otherwise? What's the card model number/chip type? I'll have a poke around and see if I can find anything about making it work properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtbiker Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 The Ethernet is part of the laptops motherboard. The Wifi card i'm using is based on the Realtek 8180L chip, which most people seem to be able to use by using ndiswrapper to do the drivers. The card's number is: 73-TMWBD-001 Thanks delusional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusional Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 From the sound of it you may have a problem similar to that described here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsamwel/dwl-510-on-linux-2.6.html I guess you've already got the latest rtl8180l drivers from Realtek? If not get them here. If so, try checking the real PCI id of your card against the one stipulated in the NET8180.INF file as described in the top link above - this would explain why the card is showing as present but ndiswrapper can't discover it. If their all present and correct then evidently the problem's elsewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtbiker Posted February 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Nope, i've checked with lspci and all the numbers match up. One thing that might be of intrest is that using the lspci -v command tells me that the I/O ports of the Wifi card at 4000 are disabled: root@ubuntu:~# lspci -v results in: 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11B MAC (rev 20) Subsystem : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180 802.11b MAC Flags: medium devsel, IRQ11 I/O ports at 4000 [disabled] Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] Capabilites: [50] Power Mangagement version 2 Thanks for the ideas Delusionsal, does this mean anything to you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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