Feisty Meta physics

[Derek Broughton]

Carl Spitzer wrote:

> 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)

OK, it's not there.  No big surprise, since it's clearly USB: 

How about "lsusb"?
> 
> 
> lsmod  (earlier I had an orinoco PCMIA which worked)
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> prism2_usb             74628  0
> p80211                 31884  1 prism2_usb
> usbcore               134280  6
> prism2_usb,usb_storage,libusual,usbhid,uhci_hcd

> 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)
> 
wlan0 is obviously not a valid wireless interface - but is that what it was
called when it _did_ work?  Different drivers may use different interface
names. When you unplug the USB connection, are the p80211 and prism2_usb
modules unloaded (ie, do they disappear from "lsmod")?    If not,
try "rmmod p80211; rmmod prism2_usb", until you get them to unload.  Then
plug in the connection and see if it makes any difference (I find one
interface always comes up correctly only after I hibernate & resume,
because that forces this removal/reload and makes sure that the wireless
drivers are loaded in the correct order).

> Connection information clicked
> prism_2 usb

What does that mean?  "Connection information clicked" where?
-- 
derek