Re: [Madwifi-users] Mandrake 10.1 /w Netgear WG511T

[Julian H. <li...@ka...>]

Hi All,

Many thanks for the replies.  I'll reply to all three in this mail to 
make things easier.

Eric, thanks for that tip, I did as you suggested and then rebooted to 
make sure it works.

Robert, here's the output from lsmod after I did as Eric suggested and 
then rebooted:

Module                  Size  Used by
nfsd                  189408  8
exportfs                4736  1 nfsd
lockd                  58344  2 nfsd
sunrpc                127652  2 nfsd,lockd
md5                     3584  1
ipv6                  230916  8
nls_cp437               5312  5
nls_iso8859-1           3680  5
smbfs                  60792  6
snd-pcm-oss            49480  0
snd-mixer-oss          17376  1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-intel8x0           30124  1
snd-ac97-codec         69392  1 snd-intel8x0
snd-pcm                81800  2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0
snd-timer              20356  1 snd-pcm
snd-page-alloc          7400  2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm
gameport                3328  1 snd-intel8x0
snd-mpu401-uart         5856  1 snd-intel8x0
snd-rawmidi            19300  1 snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-device          6344  1 snd-rawmidi
snd                    45988  11 
snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device 

soundcore               7008  1 snd
ppp_async               8896  0
ppp_generic            24468  1 ppp_async
slhc                    6112  1 ppp_generic
crc-ccitt               1664  1 ppp_async
af_packet              16072  2
usbhid                 41088  0
ds                     17572  4
yenta_socket           18624  1
pcmcia_core            59972  2 ds,yenta_socket
thermal                 9928  0
tc1100-wmi              5028  0
processor              13736  1 thermal
fan                     2756  0
button                  4624  0
battery                 7044  0
ac                      3204  0
8139too                20928  0
mii                     4224  1 8139too
ide-cd                 37280  0
cdrom                  37724  1 ide-cd
loop                   12520  0
nls_iso8859-15          4224  3
nls_cp850               4480  3
vfat                   11008  3
fat                    39776  1 vfat
amd64-agp               8584  1
agpgart                27752  1 amd64-agp
ehci-hcd               26244  0
ohci-hcd               18468  0
usbcore               103172  5 usbhid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd
genrtc                  7444  0

At this point it didn't look as if the module had loaded as it was 
supposed to, so I did 'modprobe ath_pci'.  This time lsmod had these 
lines added:

Module                  Size  Used by
ath_pci                52288  0
ath_rate_onoe           6760  1 ath_pci
wlan                  104828  2 ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal               146320  1 ath_pci

ath_pci not being used by anything concerns me, bringing me to my final 
reply:

Hi Mike,  yesssss I had noticed that.  Currently the card is sitting in 
the PCI slot blinking happily at me.  Also it works in the same machine 
on Windows XP Home (which needless to say is not installed anymore! :) 
).  Could the problem actually be the driver/module for the PCMCIA slot 
not the card?  If so do you have any suggestions to fix it?

Kind regards,

Julian