Sound card and wireless card not working, please help

[grendel]

I have two problems, my sound card doesn't output sound, and my wireless card doesn't work. I've tried searching for help topics but none of them worked for me. I'm running Sarge, with Kernel 2.6.8, on a Sony PCG-FXA47 laptop. I'm very new to linux so I'm completely lost.

The sound card is an itegrated VIA AC'97 VT82C868, well that's what lspci told me. I used synaptic to get the ASLA drivers, but still no luck.

The wireless card is a Linksys WPC54G ver. 2, lspci calls it a Texas Instruments ACX 111 54MBPS wireless interface. I tried NDIS-wrapper but I didn't have the windows drivers handy. I've read that linux has a difficult time with 802.11 G, but I've got the card and want it to work

Thanks in advance for the help

[junkman4547]

For you sound problem try these code, as root

#apt-get install alsa-base
#apt-get install alsa-utils

then run......alsaconf

Hope this will work for you.

[grendel]

That worked, I got the ALSA drivers with synaptic it just didn't configure them. I feel very dumb knowing that all I had to do was type in alsaconf and hit enter a few times. But as stated previously I don't know a ton about linux, if it were windows I could do it with my eyes closed, but I don't use windows anymore, at least not on my sony laptop. My gateway, now that's another story...

thanks for your help, now at least since I'm stuck at a desk I can listen to music there. All I need now is to get the wireless card working and I'll be humming along any were I want.

Plus like alot of people I know I use my older computers as test beds for things I'd like to do with my newer machines, and if I can get that card working without having to do a sacrificial ritual to tux and offering him the blood of the dog to appease his hunger, I might be just put it on the gatewway, who would really appreciate the power of linux.

Jacob

[Vergil83]

what did it say when you ran alsaconf? what should happen is a program will come up and ask you to pick your soundcard. Also, you have to be root.
So do this

su
alsaconf

and tell us what happens

[grendel]

Yeah, like I said it worked, I had to restart X, but it plays sound none the less. As far as what it displayed, it was a text based configuration tool, simple to use, as a matter of fact all I did was hit enter a few times and I was listening to music from music.download.com.

[cpu886]

Well, since you downloaded music online, I am assuming you can access the internet without your wireless networking card. So, follow the instructions found here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...dex.php/List#L

# Card: Linksys #[WPC54G v2], 54Mbps -- [link here|List#WPC54G v2]

* Chipset: Texas Instruments ACX 111
* pciid: 104c:9066
* Driver: Linksys ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wp...lity_v2.02.zip
* Other: linux-2.6.8-gentoo kernel, ndiswrapper 0.10.Kept having kernel panic (interrupt-related) upon module load until I set CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y (and unset CONFIG_4KSTACKS, just in case.) Also, used "ndiswrapper -i LSTINDS.INF" (NOT lsbcmnds.inf). Works with 64 and 128-bit WEP. Sometimes need to repeat config info (and commit) repeatedly, else driver & card will ignore requested setup. Also works with Gentoo 2.6.9-r9, ndiswrapper 0.12 and drivers that came from CD.

Basically, you need to download the zip file from Linksys's website and extract the files to some directory. Then, cd to that directory and type "ndiswrapper -i LSTINDS.INF". Post the output of that command. It should say something like the driver is installed and hardware is present if it works successfully.