At 13:45:51 on Friday Friday 01 January 2010, "Carlos E. R."
On Thursday, 2009-12-31 at 19:35 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
I have a new router (D-Link DIR-615) and a new wireless card (Intel 5300agn) in my notebook machine, and was unable to establish communication between them. After several days of puzzlement, I began to entertain the notion that one or both were defective.
In an effort to establish which, I connected an external HD in place of that of the notebook machine, installed WinXP on it, and installed the wireless card's driver on it; the card worked properly, so it was no longer suspect.
I thought I would them have to devise a troubleshooting scheme for the router, but when I tried to use the wireless card to go online with my own router, it worked perfectly. I had made no changes whatever in any configuration.
You mean it now works in Linux?
It sees and communicates with everything here, i.e. Linux, printer, VoIP adapter.
If someone can explain what made the difference, I will stop believing in poltergeists.
Did you power off? I'll made a wild guess. Or two. :-)
It was powered off any number of times.
Windows loaded a firmware to the card. When you reboot without powering off, it is still there and linux works.
That has since occurred to me, in spite of which it may be the right answer. I know that some (all?) similar cards require firmware installation, but as far as I could learn or guess, the fact that the driver is in the kernel by default implied that the rpm would deal with that too, and I would not have to do so explicitly. If Windows does install the firmware along with the driver, it's fair to ask why Linux doesn't as well. I still do not see a place in oS at which I should or could have installed firmware by myself.
Or, windows changed a setting or something in the card that makes it works. It works in linux then because the setting holds.
Lets see whats happens after a hard reset or power-off >:-)
The Windows experiment took place in Haifa; I live 20km away. Setting the router up at home meant it had already survived a power down/up cycle. It has already lived through another all last night.
Cheers,
Hoping that all here have had their Sylvester "cheers", and recovered from the resulting hangover, A Healthy, Happy, Prosperous, and Peaceful 2010 to all.
Carlos E. R.
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