[Madwifi-users] Re: No ath0 when card inserted

[Joo G. <jo...@gm...>]

Noah Dain <noahdain <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On 11/29/05, Michael Renzmann <madwifi <at> nospam.otaku42.de> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:19 +1100, Joo Ghee wrote:
> > > Even after I plug in the card, nothing else seems to happen, i.e. no
> > > new outputs in the dmesg.
> >
> > Once the driver is loaded, it probes for appropriate devices. If it
> > doesn't find any, it stops. It won't constantly probe your system,
> > looking for newly inserted cards.
> >
> > For this reason you need something like hotplug which takes over this
> > part. hotplug recognizes when a card has been inserted or was removed
> > and acts accordingly.
> >
> > So, the first thing that comes to my mind as answer for your situation:
> > check whether you have hotplug up and running.
> >
> > Bye, Mike
> >
> I (possibly) had the same problem with my thinkpad ...
> 
> try booting with the card in and see if it turns up.  If so, the
> kernel most likely isn't detecting or turning off the pci-cardbus
> bridge at boot as the bios hasn't configured it (or something to that
> effect, can't remember exactly).  iirc, this was fixed in 2.6.13 with
> the new pci detection code for x86.
> 
> if you need to keep the stock deb kernel, you may be able to try
> different "pci=???" kernel params to try and detect it.
> 
> --
> Noah Dain
> 
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Hi,

I have tried booting with the card plugged in. No luck there.

I have since rebuilt and run madwifi from kernel 2.6.14. When I plug in the 
card, the following message was displayed:

yenta EnE: chaning testregister 0xC9, 04 -> 04

But running iwconfig still doesn't show any ath0 interface (I am using madwifi-
old).

I have also tried restarting hotplug just in case it wasn't started at bootup, 
still no reaction from the card.

Btw, I actually have a internal wireless card (think it's Broadcom) in the same 
laptop. Do you think there could be some conflict there?

Thanks for all the help.

Joo Ghee