[wplug] Wireless card not initialized on 2.6.16 kernel

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Wed Oct 11 13:38:42 EDT 2006


On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:28:06PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:13, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Richard Farina wrote:
> > > To begin with, do you actually have an orinoco chipset card? Or is it
> > > prism2? Are you sure?
> >
> > I suppose one can never be sure.  orinoco is what I recall from before,
> > but perhaps I'm mistaken. Or perhaps something's changed.
> >
> > How can I go about finding out?
> 
> # lspci -v
> 
> and then google the output.

I think that will just show the PCI-to-cardbus bridge, not what's on
the card itself.

Try "cardctl ident" to get the pcmcia card's identification string;
you might need to follow that with some Googling to identify the
chipset.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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