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ashf

Member

Registered: 2009-09-18

Posts: 3

Sagem XG-703A USB Wireless Dongle Install Problem

Hi,

First post and new on linux ....
Have done a install of Archlinux 2009.08 via CDROM on an old pc
motherboard:Gigabyte 6BX7+
CPU:Celeron 500
Storage:Hitachi 4g CF

I have a Sagem XG-703A USB Wireless Dongle plug on
But I don't know what to do next...

what I've done:
1.uninstall ndiswrapper
2.download firmware http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/data/f … .5.8.0.arm ,and rename it as "isl3887usb_bare" ,copy it into /lib/firmware
3.add "ndiswrapper" into mod_blacklist and "p54usb" into modules
4.reboot

but it doesn't work still

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0cde:0008 Z-Com Sitecom Wireless Network Adapter 100G+ WL-125
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1043:8012 iCreate Technologies Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0000:0e01  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

iwconfig

lo  no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BA:B3:03:64  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

masterkoppa

Member

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 92

Re: Sagem XG-703A USB Wireless Dongle Install Problem

Well thats a reallt weird problem...
From what I understood you need ndiswrapper to run the wireless card. Is it posible to do it natively. Its been a while since I've used ndiswrapper but it seems the kernel is already recognising the wireless card. Uninstall ndiswrapper and see if the system does load it manually. Otherwise I would recomend you post this on the ndiswrapper forums.