Belikin FSD6020 v2 non-functional in Ubuntu 4.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pcmcia-cs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Andreas Mueller |
Bug Description
The Belkin FSD6020 network card fails to work when inseted in a (cardbus) laptop
running 4.10. There seem to be a number of reasons why this is happening. The
v2 cards contain an atmel chipset (I have been able to definitively confirm this
is the case although the atmel kernel driver appears to load successfully), and
the Belkin card is not one listed in /etc/pcmcia/
following to that file:
card "Belkin FSD6020 v2'
pci 0x1bf, 0x3302
bind "atmel_cs"
This appears, in conjunction with the atmel-firmware package from universe, to
work to a point, in that the card is recognised and the driver installs
correctly. (It would be useful if there were some indication that this package
is necessary.) However, configuring /etc/network/
using the GNOME networking setup tool):
iface eth1 inet dhcp
name Wireless LAN card
wireless_essid <essid>
wireless_key <key>
does not result in the card connecting to the wireless net. The following error
appears in syslog:
Jan 18 00:46:18 localhost cardmgr[3945]: + Error for wireless request "Set
Encode" (8B2A) :
Jan 18 00:46:18 localhost cardmgr[3945]: + invalid argument "<key>".
The following error is also reported twice, although its relevance is unclear:
Jan 18 00:46:18 localhost cardmgr[3945]: + sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
The atmel-firmware package in universe is obsolete; the relevant firmware is d-modules, which is installed by default.
already included in the linux-restricte
The "sit0" error is harmless.
The other errors seem to indicate that the driver does not support WEP.
At any rate, we can certainly add the relevant stanza to the pcmcia-cs package.
Please do re-test without the atmel-firmware package; it should not be necessary.