Feisty Meta physics

Carl Spitzer cwsiv at keepandbeararms.com
Sun Nov 4 00:16:44 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:45 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Carl Spitzer wrote:
> 
> > When I clicked the manager icon in the upper right it shows the DLink
> > 120R as a wired connection.  But an Obertron(sp?) PCMIA is seen as
> > wireless and works.
> 
> Right.  Do "lspci" and tell us what it says about the DLink.  Also, show the
> output from "lsmod"
> 
> My guess is that it's using a (bad) native driver when it needs
> ndiswrapper - but without knowing what chipset it uses, we can't tell.

D-Link120R  lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller
(rev 02)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S
Audio Controller] (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem (Mob
WorldW SmartDAA) (rev 01)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2380
[MagicMedia 256XL+] (rev 10)



lsmod  (earlier I had an orinoco PCMIA which worked)

Module                  Size  Used by
prism2_usb             74628  0 
p80211                 31884  1 prism2_usb
nls_iso8859_1           5120  0 
nls_cp437               6784  0 
vfat                   14208  0 
fat                    53916  1 vfat
ipv6                  268960  8 
orinoco_cs             16900  0 
orinoco                43028  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  8448  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
binfmt_misc            12680  1 
rfcomm                 40856  0 
l2cap                  25856  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              55908  4 rfcomm,l2cap
sonypi                 23196  0 
ppdev                  10116  0 
speedstep_lib           6148  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        9228  0 
cpufreq_userspace       5408  0 
cpufreq_stats           7360  0 
freq_table              5792  2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_conservative     8200  0 
cpufreq_powersave       2688  0 
dev_acpi               12292  0 
tc1100_wmi              8068  0 
pcc_acpi               13184  0 
sony_acpi               6284  0 
sbs                    15652  0 
i2c_ec                  6016  1 sbs
video                  16388  0 
asus_acpi              17308  0 
container               5248  0 
dock                   10268  0 
button                  8720  0 
ac                      6020  0 
battery                10756  0 
backlight               7040  1 asus_acpi
sg                     36252  0 
sd_mod                 23428  0 
usb_storage            72256  0 
libusual               17936  1 usb_storage
af_packet              23816  4 
reiserfs              247680  1 
sbp2                   23812  0 
lp                     12452  0 
fuse                   46612  0 
joydev                 10816  0 
snd_ymfpci             62368  1 
gameport               16520  1 snd_ymfpci
snd_ac97_codec         98464  1 snd_ymfpci
ac97_bus                3200  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            44544  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17408  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                79876  3 snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_opl3_lib           11520  1 snd_ymfpci
snd_hwdep               9988  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_page_alloc         10888  2 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         9472  1 snd_ymfpci
pcmcia                 39212  1 orinoco_cs
snd_seq_dummy           4740  0 
snd_seq_oss            32896  0 
parport_pc             36388  1 
snd_seq_midi            9600  0 
snd_rawmidi            25472  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      8448  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
parport                36936  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
serio_raw               7940  0 
psmouse                38920  0 
snd_seq                52592  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
pcspkr                  4224  0 
snd_timer              23684  4 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9100  6
snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    54020  15
snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               8672  1 snd
yenta_socket           27532  2 
rsrc_nonstatic         14080  1 yenta_socket
intel_agp              26140  1 
agpgart                35400  1 intel_agp
pcmcia_core            40852  4
orinoco_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_piix4               9740  0 
i2c_core               22656  2 i2c_ec,i2c_piix4
shpchp                 34324  0 
pci_hotplug            32576  1 shpchp
tsdev                   8768  0 
evdev                  11008  2 
ext3                  133128  1 
jbd                    59816  1 ext3
mbcache                 9604  1 ext3
ide_cd                 32672  0 
cdrom                  37664  1 ide_cd
ide_disk               17024  4 
generic                 5124  0 [permanent]
usbhid                 26592  0 
hid                    27392  1 usbhid
floppy                 59524  0 
piix                   10756  0 [permanent]
ata_generic             9092  0 
libata                125720  1 ata_generic
scsi_mod              142348  5 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage,sbp2,libata
ohci1394               36528  0 
ieee1394              299448  2 sbp2,ohci1394
uhci_hcd               25360  0 
usbcore               134280  6
prism2_usb,usb_storage,libusual,usbhid,uhci_hcd
thermal                14856  0 
processor              31048  1 thermal
fan                     5636  0 
fbcon                  42656  0 
tileblit                3584  1 fbcon
font                    9216  1 fbcon
bitblit                 6912  1 fbcon
softcursor              3200  1 bitblit
vesafb                  9220  0 
capability              5896  0 
commoncap               8192  1 capability


Plus some attempts with ifconfig and iwconfig

cwsiv at cwsiv-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

cwsiv at cwsiv-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig a
a: error fetching interface information: Device not found
cwsiv at cwsiv-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
cwsiv at cwsiv-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:200 (200.0 b)  TX bytes:200 (200.0 b)

cwsiv at cwsiv-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     no wireless extensions.



Connection information clicked
prism_2 usb	

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