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MattF

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Posted: Oct. 09 2008,03:17

My question is similar to http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....38;st=0 but I'm afraid I don't know as much as tjwoosta who posted that.

I have an old laptop. Ethernet isn't working but it has a wireless card (DWL-G630 Dlink AirplusG). I installed xubuntu on this laptop and it sort of works but it is slow. As part of that installation xubuntu automatically figured out what driver to use for this pcmcia wireless card. And at this point the driver is already on my hard disk (somewhere) I'm guessing since wireless internet works (I'm using it now).

But I'd like to use DSL instead because well, it is a lot faster and this is an old computer. I just don't know how to get dsl to use this card. Can anyone give me a hint as to where to start to figure out how to find the driver that works and set up dsl to use it?

curaga

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Posted: Oct. 09 2008,13:41

Well, first find out the chipset and driver. Please post the relevant part of lspci (most likely Network Controller), and full lsmod.

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MattF

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Posted: Oct. 20 2008,04:29

Here is the relevant part of lspci:

Code Sample

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

And here is my full lsmod:

Code Sample

Module Size Used by
wlan_tkip 13696 2
wlan_ccmp 9600 1
af_packet 23812 4
ipv6 267780 8
rfcomm 41744 2
l2cap 25728 13 rfcomm
bluetooth 61156 4 rfcomm,l2cap
uinput 10240 1
nvram 9992 1
ppdev 10372 0
apm 22616 2
cpufreq_ondemand 9740 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_userspace 5284 0
cpufreq_conservative 8712 0
cpufreq_stats 7104 0
freq_table 5536 2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
nls_cp437 6656 1
cifs 233972 1
iptable_filter 3840 0
ip_tables 14820 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16132 1 ip_tables
snd_cs4236 17196 1
snd_opl3_lib 12928 1 snd_cs4236
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4236_lib 17536 1 snd_cs4236
snd_mpu401_uart 9728 1 snd_cs4236
snd_cs4231_lib 26624 2 snd_cs4236,snd_cs4236_lib
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78596 3 snd_cs4236_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24836 4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 6 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 56996 17 snd_cs4236,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4236_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm_os
s,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_de
vice
soundcore 8800 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
parport_pc 36260 1
lp 12324 0
parport 37832 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
wlan_scan_sta 14720 1
ath_rate_sample 14336 1
ath_pci 101024 0
wlan 207728 6 wlan_tkip,wlan_ccmp,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 192592 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
pcmcia 40876 0
psmouse 40336 0
serio_raw 7940 0
intel_agp 25492 1
evdev 13056 2
shpchp 34452 0
pci_hotplug 30880 1 shpchp
pcspkr 4224 0
i2c_piix4 9612 0
agpgart 34760 1 intel_agp
yenta_socket 27276 3
rsrc_nonstatic 13696 1 yenta_socket
i2c_core 24832 1 i2c_piix4
pcmcia_core 40596 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ext3 136712 1
jbd 48404 1 ext3
mbcache 9600 1 ext3
sg 36880 0
sr_mod 17956 0
cdrom 37408 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 30720 3
ata_generic 8324 0
ata_piix 19588 2
pata_acpi 8320 0
uhci_hcd 27024 0
libata 159344 3 ata_generic,ata_piix,pata_acpi
usbcore 146028 2 uhci_hcd
scsi_mod 151436 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
fbcon 42912 0
tileblit 3456 1 fbcon
font 9472 1 fbcon
bitblit 6784 1 fbcon
softcursor 3072 1 bitblit
fuse 50708 1

Thanks for your help because I have no clue what this is:(

andrewb

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Posted: Oct. 20 2008,05:18

I have a TPlink pcmcia card in my laptop with one of the Atheros sets in it. It autodetects & loads the ath_xxx modules as yours seems to do, but won't work. I have had to use ndiswrapper to get it to work. In bootlocal.sh I rmmod the ath_xxx modules (& anything else to do with wireless that has been loaded) & then load ndiswrapper, followed by the wlan modules as required (tkip, etc). Then use the ususal wireless setup commands & pump to get the network up. Works fine then.

curaga

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Posted: Oct. 20 2008,13:12

There's also a newer Madwifi extension you could try, in addition to Windows drivers via ndiswrapper.

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