sandisk sdwcfb-000 wireless card not recognized

Horst Schlonz horst.schlonz at gmx.de
Mon Jan 10 13:14:57 UTC 2005


hi,

i have a sandisk sdwcfb-000 wireless cf card and a pc card adapter. when
plug both in syslog shows this:
cardmgr[9588]: socket 0: D-Link DCF-660W  11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card
cardmgr[9588]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
cardmgr[9588]: + FATAL: Module prism2_cs not found.
cardmgr[9588]: modprobe exited with status 1
cardmgr[9588]: module /lib/modules/2.6.10-1-686/pcmcia/prism2_cs.o not
available
cardmgr[9588]: bind 'prism2_cs' to socket 0 failed: Invalid argument

there is no /lib/modules/2.6.10-1-686/pcmcia/prism2_cs.o in the
repository so i can't install it.

i installed the hostap-source package and created a
hostap-modules-2.6.10-1_0.2.6-1_i386.deb with
/usr/src/modules/hostap-source # ./debian/rules binary-modules \
KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-1

now i have many new drivers:
# dpkg -L hostap-modules-2.6.10-1
/.
/lib
/lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap_crypt_ccmp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap_crypt_tkip.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap_crypt_wep.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap_cs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap_pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap_plx.ko

but i can't load them:
# depmod -a
# modprobe hostap
FATAL: Module hostap not found.
# insmod /lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap.ko
insmod: error inserting
'/lib/modules/2.6.10-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap.ko': -1
Invalid module format

so i don't know if these are the right drivers anyway. anyone got the
sandisk sdwcfb-000 wireless cf card to work?





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