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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM, luoyi <luoyi.ly@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello, I'm trying to run Slackware-current on my AMTEK T700 UMPC box. and from:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=664458
>
> I know that the my box's wifi is WinBound's products.
>
> I'm currently running kernel 2.6.28.7 now and have modprobed w35und.
> and I also have a linksys usb wireless card on the USB port.
>
> Now, the situation is Linksys's card can just work well. and the
> Winbound card can't .
>
> wlan1 is the WinBound card:
>
> root@t700:~# dmesg |grep wlan1
> udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
>
> root@t700:~# iwlist wlan1 scan
> wlan1     No scan results
>
> root@t700:~# iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0     Scan completed :
>         Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:FC:7E:57:51
>                   ESSID:"default"
>                   Mode:Master
>                   Channel:5
>                   Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
>                   Quality=56/100  Signal level:-22 dBm
>                   Encryption key:off
>                   IE: Unknown: 000764656661756C74
>                   IE: Unknown: 010882848B968C929824
>                   IE: Unknown: 030105
>                   IE: Unknown: 0406000200000000
>                   IE: Unknown: 2A0100
>                   IE: Unknown: 3204B048606C
>                   Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
>                             9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>                             48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>                   Extra:tsf=00000035772ec17e
>                   Extra: Last beacon: 52ms ago
>
> does this mean that the winbound drivers in the kernel tree is not
> ready for use ? or do we have any idea for make it work ?

The driver is known to be broken in 2.6.28. You might want to try out
2.6.29-rc8 which carries fixes for the driver. Note that the driver is
in the staging directory which means it is not of production quality.