Last week I tried ndiswrapper for the first time, to use SMC Ez Connect 2862W-G -- a 802.11g USB device -- on Debian GNU/Linux. Step-by-step installation is documented here (I don't have time yet to convert it into html). But it seems there exist a huge memory leak somewhere. After running for around one hour, my swap space which usually barely used is almost full. Maybe I will hunt this down later.
Next target is searching open source driver for this beast. Anyone knows what chipset is this device based on?
Monday, March 14, 2005
SMC2862W-G on Debian GNU/Linux
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this card uses prism chipset. not sure if its prism2 or prism54. looks like its prism54 since it support the -g standard.
the chipset is the prism frisbee.
rogier.
ndiswrapper doesnt seems to work with powerpc. is there any other way to make smc2862w to work with debian + powerpc ?
Syakir: well, the hard way, I think, is to sniff USB protocol on a Windows machine, or a Linux on x86 with ndiswrapper, then write your own driver based on that info.
I don't know any easy way to avoid that, except to use a PowerPC friendly WiFi USB adapter.
Did you get some success while getting to work your SMC 2862w-g usb card?.
If yes, please, let me know...
Sorry, currently I use internal WiFi (Intel 2100), so tweaking SMC2862W is very low priority.
I (the so-fresh-you-won't-believe Linux noob) just got Dapper installed and was tweaking it to get the SMC2852W-G to work. Dapper detected the dongle at installation and set it up as eth0. It didn't work (AP showed invalid under iwconfig). I then found this piece of instruction and got as far as getting ndiswrapper to say driver installed and hardware present. The problem is that when I do iwconfig, it still shows eth0 and not wlan0 or eth1 as what I would expect from my successful ndiswrapper implementation. I tried to blacklist (tried blacklist prism, prism2, prism2_pci *useless I know*, hostap_pci, hostap) and rebooted and still nothing. Oh yeah, btw, my original problem was that the channel was wrong (mine was 6, it kept defaulting to 14 or 1) and I can't set the WEP open key (gave me unknown error 524). I'm on the brink of going out to buy a Linux proven PCI network card now to save my sanity.
Intersil Frisbee is the chipset on version 1. v2 uses Conexant Cohiba GW3887IK and v3 uses Conexant Cohiba GW3887AIKZ
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