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[TheBigPhish]

you would have been looking for the words "Installation Wiki" which are buried under the downloads section of the main page...

Installation Wiki

or

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation

[TheBigPhish]

t finishes not finding anything

i thought i read somewhere that this card is 0x168 from lspci but i'm not seeing that anywhere

is there a way i can tell if 32 bit cardbus support is installed in the kernel?

ok, is this a hand compiled kernel or the stock one?

and can you post the output of "lspci"?

[casualslacker]

stock kernel

i will get the lspci output later

i tried two other wireless cards and 'cardctl status' keeps saying the same thing '3.3V 16-bit PC Card function 0: [busy], [bat dead], [bat low]'
without anything inserted 'cardctl status' shows nothing for the socket

when i try 'carctl ident', it locks up, eject the card, it finishes, every time after that with card inserted 'cardctl ident' returns nothing

a21m thinkpad pcmcia slots are type II, found a pdf manual

thank you

[TheBigPhish]

the lspci output would be handy, as well as lsmod...because i don't think your system 'knows' it has PC cards... we need to get that working before you worry about the type I/II thing

[casualslacker]

thank you for trying to help TheBigPhish

lspci -vv, below, says something about 16 bit legacy port, probably can't use 32 bit cardbus cards?

-------------lsmod output--------------------
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ndiswrapper 108628 0
smbfs 41328 3 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss 37736 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12504 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
eepro100 19252 1
mii 2272 0 [eepro100]
snd-cs46xx 66408 1
gameport 1420 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd-pcm 56072 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cs46xx]
snd-timer 13604 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 49500 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd-page-alloc 6328 0 [snd-cs46xx snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 12740 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 30852 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cs46xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3396 6 [snd]
uhci 24444 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [ndiswrapper uhci]
ds 6548 4
yenta_socket 10336 2
pcmcia_core 39972 0 [ds yenta_socket]
agpgart 43940 0 (unused)

------------lspci output---------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
00:03.1 Serial controller: Xircom Mini-PCI V.90 56k Modem
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

----------lspci -vv output pcmcia section--------------
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0130
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168, cache line size 04
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 18000000-183ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 18400000-187ff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0130
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168, cache line size 04
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at 50100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 18800000-18bff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 18c00000-18fff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

[TheBigPhish]

ok, well...the good thing is your system does appear to realize that it has PC cards (as shown by the "yenta" entries in the lspci output...

what you need to do now is find the appropriate Win drivers for ndiswrapper to attempt to launch. IIRC, the v4 version of the Broadcom drivers didn't work with my install, i ended up finding v2 or v3 drivers to install, and they worked correctly. There was some other small difference between the two, but the v3 drivers worked correctly for me. You might have to go searching, but i'm pretty sure the v3 drivers are still out there. Don't be downtrodden because you're not gonna be running the latest and greatest drivers for your card... that's propaganda for windows addicts! New drivers just means more stuff to break in the long run.

[edit]
holy cow, that output looks familiar
are you on a Gateway Solo 2150v2?

[casualslacker]

ok i'll check around and hopefully report back here, thanks again

[casualslacker]

problem was pcmcia slot is not cardbus, now looking for a 16 bit b card