DLink DWL-520 Problems

[Mike Watson]

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On Sunday 11 January 2004 03:44 pm, Miles Phillips wrote:
> Hello all,
> First of all I'm new to this list and if I am in the wrong spot I
> apologize in advance.  I just installed Fedora on a couple computers,
> and all worked well except...  I just purchased without doing
> research(bad me) a dlink DWL-520 PCI wireless ethernet card.  Fedora
> detects the card as Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset.  When I try to
> activate the connection from devices, I get the message "orinoco_pci
> device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."
>
> If I go in under the hardware tab and click edit, it chooses irq 11
> which I believe is correct, then I hit ok and then I get:
> Command failed: /sbin/modprobe orinco_pci irq=11
>
> Output:
> Warning: ignoring irq=11, no such parameter in this module
> Warning: ignoring irq=11, no such parameter in this module
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115/nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinco
>_pci.o: init_module: No such device
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115/nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinco
>_pci.0: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoc
>o_pci.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115/nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinco
>_pci.0: insmod orinco_pci failedHint: insmod errors can be caued by
> incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQparameters.
> You may findout more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
>
> If anyone has had any experience, or has any suggestions for me on
> this it would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Miles

You have to configure a minimum of values for the card using iwconfig 
and redhat-network-config (neat). Finally, do a ifconfig down then up 
and if you've configured the DWL-520 properly, it'll come up.

Mike W

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