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w1av - 06.09.2006, 14:15 Uhr
Titel: No wireless with Easter version?
Hello....I am still wondering about this. On rare occasions I like to use wireless with my laptop. It worked PERFECTLY with Kanotix 2005-4......but when I changed over to the latest Easter release I cannot get it to work at all.
Is this a characteristic of the Easter version? I like the Easter version for the ease of installing certain *media programs* among other things. Its a great release but I still have NO wireless!
I am tempted to go back to 2005-4 but I have my system set up nicely.
Does anyone have an answer if this is just the way this version behaves? Like I said, I had wireless working fine with 2005-4......I know I should post my data, like the wireless card name, etc. But what is the difference in the Easter version and 2005-4 where wireless is not easily set up to work? I will post my wireless card data here if I need to.....I have tried all the suggestions posted by others last time I played around with it.
Should I use ndiswrapper? I have no clue how to do that.....HELP!!!! 
slam - 06.09.2006, 14:47 Uhr
Titel: Re: No wireless with Easter version?
w1av hat folgendes geschrieben::
......I know I should post my data, like the wireless card name, etc. ... I will post my wireless card data here if I need to.....
Well, you already know the drill 
Greetings,
Chris
w1av - 06.09.2006, 15:09 Uhr
Titel: card data
Here is my card data:
I have a Hawking Technologies wireless pcmcia card. It was recognized as RA0 with Kanotix 2005-4. It uses ra2400 chipset so it was pretty easy to configure. Whan I tried configuring the card with the Easter edition it seemed to recognize the card as "eth1" not "ra0" like before. But I could not get a link or signal....I used the common commands from a post by KANO. But that did not work. The card works OK when I boot into Winxp so I know the card is fine.
I ran netcardconfig.....then kwifi manager but still could not get a signal from wireless router. I know there are other command I will need to try and post results here. Hopefully this helps somewhat.....
w1av - 06.09.2006, 15:14 Uhr
Titel: no support issue ? ? ?
I found this response to one of my earlier posts from a while ago.....
su
ifconfig eth1 up
then run netcardconfig from kanotix menu, dhcp yes if you use it, or get the Cebit ed. it works without ndiswrapper (Easter ed. uses a smp kernel which does not support the ralink RT 2500 properly, for that you need the 2.6.19.9 slh-up-1 kernel) Gruss UB
From what this tells me is the Easter release is not compatible with my card......I can get a compatible card if I need to...they are cheap enough. any ideas on this post? 
w1av - 06.09.2006, 15:26 Uhr
Titel: more card data
Here is more stuff from a post from back in June when I was still messing with this:
IWCONFIG RESULTS:
lo no wireless extensions.
lan0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=-1
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-120 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
LSPCI RESULTS:
root@KanotixBox:/home/bob# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 13)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
0000:00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1
0000:02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11G Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IFCONFIG ETH1 UP......nothing happens.
It seems to be there, as I high lighted in RED above. When I used the card in Kanotix 2005-4, the card was recognized as "ra0"......now it is "eth1".....
The card uses a "ralink RT2500 chip".
slh - 07.09.2006, 00:37 Uhr
Titel: RE: more card data
Just download an -up kernel or use ndiswrapper.
w1av - 08.09.2006, 13:11 Uhr
Titel: ndiswrapper
It might be easier just to try to use ndiswrapper but could someone give me a little help with that? I know that there are 2 windows files that need to be copied into Kanotix. But I need more clearer detailed help. I will search the forum for help first. Also I have never installed or replaced a kernel before so maybe I should try to learn that. What is a "-up kernel?"
So this wireless with the rt2500 chipset and easter edition is a kernel issue? OK.... 
Kano - 08.09.2006, 16:22 Uhr
Titel: RE: ndiswrapper
You need a newer version of ndiswrapper than it is on Easter RC4 for rt2500.
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