Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:07:25 -0700 | Subject | Re: w35und driver unusable | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM, luoyi <luoyi.ly@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, I'm trying to run Slackware-current on my AMTEK T700 UMPC box. and from: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=664458 > > I know that the my box's wifi is WinBound's products. > > I'm currently running kernel 2.6.28.7 now and have modprobed w35und. > and I also have a linksys usb wireless card on the USB port. > > Now, the situation is Linksys's card can just work well. and the > Winbound card can't . > > wlan1 is the WinBound card: > > root@t700:~# dmesg |grep wlan1 > udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1 > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready > > root@t700:~# iwlist wlan1 scan > wlan1 No scan results > > root@t700:~# iwlist wlan0 scan > wlan0 Scan completed : > Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:FC:7E:57:51 > ESSID:"default" > Mode:Master > Channel:5 > Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5) > Quality=56/100 Signal level:-22 dBm > Encryption key:off > IE: Unknown: 000764656661756C74 > IE: Unknown: 010882848B968C929824 > IE: Unknown: 030105 > IE: Unknown: 0406000200000000 > IE: Unknown: 2A0100 > IE: Unknown: 3204B048606C > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s > 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s > 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > Extra:tsf=00000035772ec17e > Extra: Last beacon: 52ms ago > > does this mean that the winbound drivers in the kernel tree is not > ready for use ? or do we have any idea for make it work ?
The driver is known to be broken in 2.6.28. You might want to try out 2.6.29-rc8 which carries fixes for the driver. Note that the driver is in the staging directory which means it is not of production quality.
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