[driverloader] Compaq NW8000 with integrated WLAN

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

thanks to Dimitris for the explanation about the button.

You seem to have an Atheros based card. I have the same adapter on a test
machine here.

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02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
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Since the card shows up in the "lspci" output, DriverLoader should be able
to detect it. The problem may be an IRQ routing issue. Try playing with the
following kernel boot parameters : "pci=noacpi", "acpi=off", "noapic" and/or
"apm=off".

If you still have problems, run "dldrconfig --dumpdiag" from a root shell
and send us the file generated in '/tmp' at support at linuxant.com.

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janne Saarela" <janne.saarela at profium.com>
To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:14 AM
Subject: [driverloader] Compaq NW8000 with integrated WLAN


Hi all,

I've succesfully installed Fedora to my new laptop but fail
to get wlan support running for the integrated WLAN device.
The Windows drivers are, of course, available from HP Web site [1].

I wonder if someone has been able to get it up?
Only similar references were available for Compaq NX7000 which,
I could imagine, has very similar hardware as NW8000.

The Driverloader indicates it cannot find the device
on the Web interface even though I have uploaded the
INF and corresponding SYS file. In fact, my /var/lib/driverloader
currently contains:

ar5211.sys
net5211.inf

BTW, when I activate the wlan card with the special button
on the laptop (and the blue light lits), /var/log/messages says:

Jan 16 09:08:11 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.2-1,
assigned address 4
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000480, flags 0,
urb dfa71600, burb dfa71480
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000480, flags 0,
urb dfa71680, burb dfa71480
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost usb.agent[12960]: missing kernel or user mode
driver hci_usb
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost usb.agent[12956]: missing kernel or user mode
driver hci_usb
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost usb.agent[12963]: missing kernel or user mode
driver hci_usb
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost usb.agent[12963]: missing kernel or user mode
driver usbdfu
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000480, flags 0,
urb dd544b00, burb dfa71480
Jan 16 09:08:14 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Jan 16 09:08:15 localhost devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

So it appears the device is somehow available as a USB device?
Is driverloader then a good approach at all?

I attach to this email dmesg and lspci outputs if
they help resolving my problem.

Regards,
Janne