[TriLUG] Help w/ wireless setup

[Greg Brown]

I'm running into the same kind of thing with Kubuntu and an old Lucent
Orinoco card that I assumed would have been support.  Any info pointers
getting the old wlan card to work would be greatly appreciated.


Greg

On 7/12/07, Christopher Blackmon <ckblackm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get wireless working on my fujitsu p2120 laptop w/ xubuntu
> installed (feisty), and am running into some difficulty.
> iwconfig says wlan0 has no wireless extensions, and lshw shows wlan0 as
> being disabled.  Any ideas on how to fix this?
>
> thanks,
> Christopher.
>
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> root at ckblackm-laptop:/home/ckblackm# lsmod | grep prism
> prism2_pci             70784  0
> p80211                 31884  1 prism2_pci
>
>
> root at ckblackm-laptop:/home/ckblackm# iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0     no wireless extensions.
>
>         *-network:1 DISABLED
>              description: Ethernet interface
>              product: Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
>              vendor: Intersil Corporation
>              physical id: 12
>              bus info: pci at 00:12.0
>              logical name: wlan0
>              version: 01
>              width: 32 bits
>              clock: 33MHz
>              capabilities: cap_list ethernet physical
>              configuration: broadcast=yes driver=p80211_prism2_pci
> driverversion=0.2.5 latency=64 link=no multicast=yes
>              resources: iomemory:e8017000-e8017fff irq:9
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