VectorLinux
May 18, 2013, 08:47:15 pm *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News: Visit our home page for VL info. To search the old message board go to http://vectorlinux.com/forum1. The first VL forum is temporarily offline until we can find a host for it. Thanks for your patience.
 
Now powered by KnowledgeDex.
   Home   Help Search Login Register  
Please support VectorLinux!
VectorLinux > The nuts and bolts > Hardware & Drivers > How to install a wlan driver
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: How to install a wlan driver  (Read 6181 times)
Ewald
Member
*
Posts: 22
« on: September 29, 2008, 12:31:27 pm »
I have an new install of VL 5.0
I am trying to get to work a SMC 2802W V2 EU wlan card using the prism54pci driver.
The card is detected (lspci)
I do know that the card works with another linux distro (Xubuntu) and there it appears under the module name p54pci.
I do have the driver location and could download it and I do have the necessary firmware.
What I don't know is how to install the driver in VL or how to check if the driver is already installed (modprobe -l lists a prism54.ko file).
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks.
Logged
newt
Vectorian
****
Posts: 1132
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2008, 12:41:23 pm »
If you try a 'lsmod' do you see your prism driver in the list or anything that looks similar?
Logged
Ewald
Member
*
Posts: 22
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2008, 11:02:37 am »
I am out of town until Thursday. I will try the lsmod command and post the outcome then. Thanks for the help anyway.
Logged
wcs
Packager
Vectorian
****
Posts: 1144
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2008, 11:04:32 pm »
If not, "modprobe prism54" will install it.
Logged
Ewald
Member
*
Posts: 22
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2008, 12:30:14 am »
I am back!
the lsmode output lists a driver prism54:

prism 54........5300.........0

from this I conclude that it is not used currently. What do I do now?
Logged
wcs
Packager
Vectorian
****
Posts: 1144
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2008, 12:35:20 am »
If it shows up in lsmod it means it is being used.
So the problem must lie somewhere else.....
(sorry, wish I could help more)
Logged
Ewald
Member
*
Posts: 22
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2008, 03:25:25 am »
on the linux wireless site (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54#p54) I found the following instructions regarding my card:

To enable p54, you must first enable mac80211
Networking  --->
  Wireless  --->
    <M> Improved wireless configuration API
    <M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)

You can then enable p54 in the kernel configuration under
Device Drivers  --->
 
  • Network device support  --->
        Wireless LAN --->
         
  • Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
          <M>   Softmac Prism54 support
          <M>     Prism54 USB support
          <M>     Prism54 PCI support
How do I do this with Vector Linux?

Another issue of importance in this case is the firmware. I do have the firmware, but where do I put it? In other words where will the Vector Linux OS be looking for it?
Logged
uelsk8s
Administrator
Vectorian
*****
Posts: 2476
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2008, 05:19:36 am »
does mac80211 show up in your lsmod output?

the firmware files should go in /lib/firmware
Logged
Ewald
Member
*
Posts: 22
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2008, 06:06:08 am »
no it doesn't
Logged
bad_gui
Member
*
Posts: 61
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2008, 07:48:15 pm »
what about the command?

modprobe mac80211

You can set /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modules.preload to pull in mac80211 before p54
Logged
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.14 | SMF © 2006-2011, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!