Wireless Card

**lakerdonald** · 09-29-2004

Oy,
I just did a stage-1 compile/install of gentoo, but i'm having some problems with my wireless card. It is a NetGear WG511 802.11g PCI NIC @ 54mbps using the Prism GT/Duette chipset (prism54 driver). I have gotten this card working on both Fedora Core 1 and Yoper v2.1 (How I got it working on Yoper), but for some reason, when I've tried it on Gentoo, no dice. I've tried

Code:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge prism54

and it will download and install, but it won't work. So I tried manually compiling the driver:

Code:

tar xvfj prism54-1.1.tar.bz2
cd prism54-1.1gjf
make KDIR=/usr/src/2.6.8-gentoo-r3/ clean modules
make KDIR=/usr/src/2.6.8-gentoo-r3/ install
depmod -a

Which compiles/installs the driver
Then I

Code:

mkdir -p /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
cd /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
wget http&#58;//prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/isl3890

which downloads/installs the firmware.
Then I do:

Code:

ifconfig eth1 up

And it says that it couldn't find the device.
HELP???
thanks
-lakerdonald

**jeremy1701** · 09-29-2004

laker_jedi

,

Are you sure it's called eth1? Maybe it's eth0. I've heard of the wireless card being called wth1 instead of eth1. What does ifconfig say?

Jeremy

**lakerdonald** · 09-29-2004

i'm sure it's not eth0, cos my wired ethernet is eth0. i did ifconfig and it showed:
eth0 blah blah blah (wired ethernet)
top1 blah blah blah (no idea)
lo blah blah blah (loopback)
I had no idea what top1 was, so i did

Code:

iwconfig top1

and it said "wireless extension not found" or something like that
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i'll check some more when i get home, but i am at school right now

**jeremy1701** · 09-29-2004

So you don't have an eth1 either? Is there a tool in Gentoo that allows you to install new hardware?

(I'm no good w/ gentoo, sorry

)
Jeremy

**lakerdonald** · 09-29-2004

well i just got home, and this time it at least recognized eth1:

Code:

ifconfig eth1 up

and then it just spit out crap how it can't load the module cos its in a bad directory (which it was)

Code:

Error&#58;can't stat /lib/modules/2.6.7-gentoo-r11/blahl/blah/blah

which makes sense since i have the 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 kernel installed, so i made a symlink:

Code:

ls -s /lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r3 /lib/modules/2.6.7-gentoo-r11

apparently, that worked to an extent, but not enough to get the driver working. This time, it found the module, but now it wasn't in the right format:

Code:

ifconfig eth1 up
Error&#58;/lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r3/blah/blah/prism54.ko -- not a valid module

???

**astro_9040** · 02-28-2005

I have had the same problem but it's with mandrake linux 1.0.
I went and decompressed the tarbal
changed directories (to the tarball)
did make KDIR=/usr/src/linux/ clean module
make install
then depmod -a
and it returns with *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/net/wirless/prism54/prism.o
can anyone help this linux newbie out?

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