[CentOS] Wifi networking-Endgame (Was: wireless laptop configuration)

Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 15:58:05 UTC 2008


>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of
>Toshaan Bharvani
>Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:42 AM
>To: centos at centos.org
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration
>
>Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>	From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]
>On Behalf Of Toshaan Bharvani
>	Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:24 PM
>	To: centos at centos.org
>	Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration
>
>
>
>	Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>	From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]
>On Behalf Of Toshaan Bharvani
>	Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:42 PM
>	To: centos at centos.org
>	Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration
>
>	Steve Huff wrote:
>	>
>	> On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin at Gmail wrote:
>	>
>	>> I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to the
>hwconf's using the
>	>> prism54 driver/firmware/whatever.
>	>>
>	>> Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have
>the
>	>> wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to
>	>> see it
>	>> properly from the beginning?
>	>
>	>
>	> before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run
>	> /usr/sbin/kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the
>	> program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort out
your
>	> issue.
>	>
>	> -steve
>	>
>	or if kudzu for some reason doesn't cooperate (which is always on my
>system)
>	become root
>	run : /sbin/modprobe prism54
>	run : dmesg | tail
>	and read whether it just says it has loaded the module (single line)
or
>	detected will output a wlanX statement and you are in business
>
>
>
>	Isn't it implied that since "prism54" is listed in
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf for the
>wifi-card that the module has been loaded already? Or is this some of the
magical stuff
>that sometimes doesn't happen for whatever reason? 8-)
>
>	/etc/sysconfig/hwconf is the file kudzu creates when of all detected
>hardware at startup and it related this hardware with drivers in the kernel
>	but certain drivers are modules in the kernel, wich need to be loaded
>manually or later when the system is already running
>	this can be done by method 1 explained here above or adding them in
>/etc/modprobe.conf which makes it load the modules at startup
>	you will need to add the line (if it is not yet there) :
>	alias wlan0 prism54
>	you can check whether the module is loaded with : /sbin/lsmod | grep
>prism54
>
>	This is how far I got with the above hints. For some reason I don't
have a
>wlan0, but instead a eth0. I did create an alias in Network Manager for eth0
> wlan0.
>Then I ran the below modprobe command according to the below.
>
>	"[root at centos-v5-x86 ~]# /sbin/modprobe prism54
>
>	[root at centos-v5-x86 ~]# dmesg|tail
>
>	eth0: resetting device...
>
>	eth0: uploading firmware...
>
>	prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
>
>	eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
>
>	eth0: islpci_reset: failure
>
>	eth0: resetting device...
>
>	eth0: uploading firmware...
>
>	prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
>
>	eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
>
>	eth0: islpci_reset: failure
>
>	[root at centos-v5-x86 ~]#"
>
>
>
>	"When I try to activate wlan0, I get this message:
>
>	Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>
>	SET failed on device eth0 ; Input/output error.
>
>	Determining IP information for eth0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or
>directory
>
>	SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
>	failed."
>
>	In /etc/modprobe.conf I've added the line "alias wlan0 prism54".
>
>	What's more, I went to the prism54.org site and found a firmware,
>downloaded it and as per instructed on the site, renamed the .arm-file to
isl3890 and
>put it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
>
>	Upon restarting and activating wlan0 I still get the above SIOC-error.
>
>	I have a hunch this might actually work if I put the isl3890-file in
the correct
>place. Not sure /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware *is* actually right, as I had to
create the
>hotplugs and firmware-folders.
>
>	Any hints on this guys?
>
>	TIA.
>
>
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>you have used the following :
>
>
>	2.5.2.0.arm : http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-
>softmac/2.5.2.0.arm
>	            Version 2.5.2.0 built on Thu Mar 4 16:05:03 CET 2004 by
>inlbuild at tix
>	            87a5519d70c16991b8fff9b3b31de68e
>	            headers
>
>	        Source: 3CRWE154G72_Jul_08_04.exe
>
>try renaming to isl3886 as it is a pcmcia card so it is equal to a pci
version and then put
>in in /lib/firmware

Thx, this last thing got me as far as having the network manager sort of see
some wlans, but I can't connect to anything and the wlan card still gives me a
sioc-error, whatever that is, and refuses to activate no matter what I do.

It feels rather ridiculous that it would take so much to get a simple wlan
card to behave. I can't say I'm a linux-n00b anymore either, so I guess you
can tell I'm feeling rather frustrated right now...

Anyway, I'll give this a last go, I'll nuke and reinstall everything from
scratch and then using the above info to hopefully make this work. If not,
I'll be giving up wifi with linux for now until it becomes more, let's say
"user and hardware friendly". 8-)

You guys have been great with help on this list. I feel a simple "thank you"
isn't nearly enough, but still, thank you guys for now!



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