Linksys WPC55AG wireless on 6.1 release ver 7

[Jussi, Petteri Nummikko]

Jeremy Windsor wrote:
> This is my first time ever emailing something or posting something like
> this.  Sorry if I sound like a noob.
>  
> I have a linksys WPC55AG wifi card in my laptop.  when i boot up with the
> default kernel it finds cbb0, pccard0, and cardbus0.  i found the ath
> drivers and added the 3 lines from man ath into a CUSTOM kernel file which i
> cp from GENERIC kernel.  i recompiled the kernel using CUSTOM.  i then added
> the ath driver load line to loader.conf in the /boot folder.
>  
> I still can not get the wireless card to power up.  When I plug it in, the
> green link light flashes then goes off, and I hear my speaker of my pc
> click.  But it never shows in dmesg or in /dev/net.
>  
> Am I doing something wrong?  This is an alienware laptop M7700 with pentium
> 4 3.4ghz, and everything except my sound card is working fine.

If you compile the ath stuff into kernel, you don't need to load the
modules anymore with loader.conf. And have you compiled wlan support
into kernel? If so, you could check with pciconf if you even have a
supported chip in the card. It's normal to see some "cardbus" stuff when
booting even if your card wasn't going to get any driver attached to it.

I've been compiling only wlan into kernel and loaded the other modules
by hand when needed, but that's just a matter of personal preference
mostly. But atleast with ndis it's handy sometimes to just unload the
ndis modules when the card goes nuts.