Re: [Madwifi-users] Trouble with Debian Etch 4.0 & D-Link DWA-556

[Dallas C. <dal...@gm...>]

Hello Pavel et al,

Several months ago I was having difficulty getting the madwifi ath_pci
driver to work on my Debian Etch AMD64 system.  After building and
installing the driver, my wireless adapter (D-link DWA-556) was not
being recognized as a PCI device.  The output of the 'lspci' command
was:

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown
device 0024 (rev 01)

Pavel suggested that I try a development version of madwifi.  I did
try it and it solved my problem.  My adapter was recognized and I have
been using it the past 4 months.

Then I upgraded today to the latest stable version of Debian Etch (rel
4 update 3).   Now my wireless adapter is not recognized anymore.  I
tried building and installing the most recent madwifi driver
(madwifi-trunk-r3574-20080426.tar.gz) and my adapter is still showing
up as an 'unknown' device.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me to try?

Thanks,
Dallas


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Dallas Clement
<dal...@gm...> wrote:
> Thank you very much Pavel.  I downloaded and built the trunk version.
> It recognized my network adapter immediately.  I am sending you this
> email now over my wireless connection! ;^)
>
> Regards,
> Dallas
>
>
> > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:11 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 12:02 -0600, Dallas Clement wrote:
> > > > Hi Pavel, thanks for the reply.  You were right.  The output of "lspci"
> > > > is:
> > > >
> > > > 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device
> > > > 0024 (rev 01)
> > > >
> > > > And the output of "lspci -n" is:
> > > >
> > > > 03:00.0 0280: 168c:0024 (rev 01)
> > > >
> > > > How can I make this device "known" to my Debian Etch system?  Or am I
> > > > SOL?
> > >
> > > You need the development version of MadWifi:
> > >
> > > svn co http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk
> > >
> > > Even then, it's work in progress.
>
>
>