FC 3 and Dell TruMobile 1180 Wireless card - Help

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 Laptop with built in Wireless card "Dell TruMobile
> 1180" (as identified by WinXP driver).

truemobile 1180 is broadcom bcm4301 which menas you're stuck with ndis 
wrapper or linuxants driverloader...

> The problem: the card does not work. Kudzu does not recognize it. I tried
> google and hasn't found anything relevant about this card and FC 3 (there are
> a lot of workaround for FC 2 stuffs). I played around with it based on what I
> found in google and couldn't make it to work.
>
> Here is output of  some command that I hope will be helpful in finding out how
> to make this wireless card to work. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> # lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge
> (rev 04)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev
> 04)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW
> [Radeon Mobility 7500]
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev
> 78)
> 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
> 02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
> 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN
> Controller (rev 01)
>
> # cardmgr
> cardmgr[3360]: open_sock(socket 0) failed: Bad file descriptor
>
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> radeon                120516  2
> parport_pc             24705  1
> lp                     11565  0
> parport                41737  2 parport_pc,lp
> autofs4                24005  0
> i2c_dev                10433  0
> i2c_core               22081  1 i2c_dev
> sunrpc                160421  1
> ds                     16965  4
> ipt_REJECT              6465  1
> ipt_state               1857  2
> ip_conntrack           40693  1 ipt_state
> iptable_filter          2753  1
> ip_tables              16193  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
> dm_mod                 54741  0
> button                  6481  0
> battery                 8517  0
> ac                      4805  0
> md5                     4033  1
> ipv6                  232577  12
> yenta_socket           18753  0
> pcmcia_core            59913  2 ds,yenta_socket
> uhci_hcd               31449  0
> snd_intel8x0m          18185  2
> snd_intel8x0           34829  2
> snd_ac97_codec         64401  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss            47609  0
> snd_mixer_oss          17217  3 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                97993  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              29765  1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc          9673  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> gameport                4801  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_mpu401_uart         8769  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_rawmidi            26725  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device          8137  1 snd_rawmidi
> snd                    54053  14
> snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore               9889  3 snd
> 3c59x                  36585  0
> floppy                 58609  0
> ext3                  116809  1
> jbd                    74969  1 ext3
>
> RDB
>

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