SMC2532W-B [solved]

[geden]

Well, lspci doesn't even see it, read that the wlan-ng driver worked but makeall errors

out....I never have much luck installing tarballs and such....recommendations?

 

 

Ok... 2 days later....so now I'm trying to install ndiswrapper, still, with the card in the

laptop lspci sees nothing..dmesg says nothing obvious..

 

One item from boot-up..

starting pcmcia: [OK]

cardmgr(2323) product info "SMC", "SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter", "",""

 

so something knows it there, I've read all the info I can find and it seems no two ppl do exactly the same thing to get this working...basically..

for LM 10.1:

1. Remove acx100...Mandrake 10.1 has built in the ACX100 Sourceforge Project Driver as a kernel module, you will need to remove this before install the ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Mandrake%2010.1)

2: Remove all traces of prior ndiswrapper installs.

3: Go to sourceforge and get latest ndiswrapper tarball.

4. Untar in home directory

5. Run make (as root) from the ndiswrapper directory(created in /home )

6. Run make install (from same place)

OK so far...

7.Copy drivers from the cards installation cd to my home directory(.inf,.sys,bin)

8.Do " ndiswrapper -i <location of the drivers you just copied over>

9.Do " ndiswrapper -m " (to register the module)

 

Now all this seemed to go pretty good but I did "ndiswrapper -l" I get:

smc2532w invalid driver

 

Not to mention that I've still got no bus identification for this device.

 

so..its not working yet.

 

Can anyone help me please...

Edited May 15, 2005 by geden

[adamw]

The Windows driver you've got is a duffer. Try another (see if there's any info on a working driver on ndiswrapper's hardware list, it's rather good).

[geden]

 

I DON"T BELIEVE IT .....I GOT IT WORKING...WOOT WOOT

After 3 days and about 10 installs of 5 different distros with

Hostap.

Download these three files from Hostap...and put them on a floppy

hostap-driver-0.3.7.tar.gz

hostap-utils-0.3.7.tar.gz

hostapd-0.3.7.tar.gz

boot up a fresh install....bring up a terminal... su to root

Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-mdk (uname -r)

After install I added kernel-sources-2.6.8.1-mdk (urpmi kernel-sources-2.6.8.1-mdk) through Mandrake Control Center

then typed this in console as root:

ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-mdk /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-mdk/build

Now..with Konqueror, I extracted the floppy contents into my home directory so now I've got three new folders in my home directory.

hostap-driver-0.3.7

hostap-utils-0.3.7

hostapd-0.3.7

cd into /home/myhome/hostap-driver-0.3.7

in console type make

watch while it compiles...owwwwww

next type make install

watch again..owwwww

cd into /home/myhome/hostap-utils-0.3.7

in console type make

watch while it compiles...owwwwww

next type make install

watch again..owwwww

cd into /home/myhome/hostapd-0.3.7

in console type make

watch while it compiles...owwwwww

next type make install

watch again..owwwww

open a new console and su to root

type kwrite

when kwrite opens navigate to /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf

add this to hostap_cs.conf:

 

card "SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter"

manfid 0xd601 0x0010

bind "hostap_cs"

 

save the file back to hostap_cs.conf

reboot

When it comes back up go into Mandrake Control Center and in the networking section create a new connection and when it asks you which interface to configure chose wlan0.

 

I'm online!!

[iphitus]

well done :D

 

maybe write this up as a faq or something for other users who have the same card?

[adamw]

We have the hostap module in MDV (well, we do in 2005, I guess it was in 10.1 too), you shouldn't have to build it...in any event, glad you got it working :)

[geden]

the modules for the pci and plx are present but not for hostap_cs which is what I needed for pcmcia.

anyway..I've tried to repeat this process on another similar machine to no avail...if anyone has any advice on installation and configuration please feel free to add your comments as info (google) is sadly lacking to this particular distro and pcmcia card.