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trekker92

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Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 54

xi-300b

hi

i've an old compaq armada 1750 (laptop) with 256mb ram and PII proc

no hard disk, but slitaz livecd, running very fine

but i've a wireless card (xi-300b)

i need ndiswrapper to use it but ndiswrapper can't be installed .. why?

ps : i've no ethernet card, so no internet, just need wifi!

thanks

i use it exclusively with livecd. and a non-bootable (too old computer) 64mb usb key

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: xi-300b

Open xterm:

uname -a >> armada.txt

lspci >> armada.txt

pccardctl info >> armada.txt

pccardctl ident >> armada.txt

Verify command output was printed to armada.txt

less armada.txt

Copy armada.txt to flash drive, plug flash drive into computer with internet.

Attach armada.txt in your reply.

trekker92

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Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 54

Re: xi-300b

thanks for your quick answer

http://pastebin.com/Jj4eghP5

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: xi-300b

The cardbus bridge is not communicating with the wireless card.

pccardctl info returns no card in either socket or card info.

Either the wireless card is not plugged in the socket or kernel modules supporting the cardbus bridge are not  loaded.

Boot slitaz with boot option laptop in kernel line with wireless card inserted.

Post output:

lspci -nn

lsmod

pccardctl info

pccardctl ident

After the cardbus identifies your card you will need to install  linux-wireless.tazpkg

#tazpkg install linux-wireless

trekker92

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Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 54

Re: xi-300b

ok; i've booted slitaz with laptop mode

i've downloaded and installed (via usb key) the linux-wireless package but doesn't detect wireless networks..

http://pastebin.com/CEaf6yXr

i don't think that texas instrument pcmcia port works..

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: xi-300b

00:11.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1225 [104c:ac1c] (rev 01)

root@slitaz:/home/tux# grep ac1c /lib/modules/2.6.30.6-slitaz/modules.pcimap

yenta_socket         0x0000104c 0x0000ac1c 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0x00060700 0xffffffff 0x0

yenta_socket is the correct module for CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1225 [104c:ac1c] (rev 01)

Make sure you have pcmciautils.tazpkg installed.

#modprobe pcmcia

#pccardctl info

#pccardctl insert

Check dmesg for helpful info after you run these commands.

If you still get no info on the card:

Look in the Armada bio's for setting's related to the cardbus,try different options.

Either the cardbus or the wireless card could be the problem unless you know the wifi card works in another computer.

This thread on the old forum is related,it may be of some help:

http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/9645#Comment_9645

trekker92

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 54

Re: xi-300b

so i've asked someone on the slitaz freenode channel

he said me that i've a orinoco based wireless card

in root, i've taped :

modprobe orinoco_cs

iwconfig eth0 essid My_wifi

udhcp eth0

it's works!