[gPXE] RTL-8185 staging/oremanj-4-wireless iwstat no output

gregwm etherboot at greatlakedata.com
Mon Dec 21 00:34:07 EST 2009


>
> gPXE isn't seeing your rtl8185 card at all. Is this a laptop with the
> card built-in or something? Sometimes there's something special that
> has to be done to enable it... check your BIOS for appropriate
> settings.
>
> Also try
>  nm bin/gpxe.lkrn.tmp | grep obj_rtl818
> to make sure the rtl8185 driver is actually compiled in.


it's a PCMCIA Trendnet TEW-421PC inserted in a Thinkpad 2684-G8U, i don't
expect the BIOS has a clue about it, it works great in w2k, knoppix6.3, and
ubuntu hardy, tho surprisingly the drivers in intrepid, jaunty, and
centos5.4 do not seem to make it work.

nm bin/gpxe.lkrn.tmp | grep obj_rtl818
000dbe1c B check_obj_rtl8180
000dbe1c B check_obj_rtl8185
000dbe1c B obj_rtl8180
000dbe1c B obj_rtl8180_grf5101
000dbe1c B obj_rtl8180_max2820
000dbe1c B obj_rtl8180_sa2400
000dbe1c B obj_rtl8185
000dbe1c B obj_rtl8185_rtl8225
000dbe48 B obj_rtl818x
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