Fwd: wmx0 not showing up

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From: The Hereweb <thehereweb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: wmx0 not showing up
To: wimax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


What is interesting is that wlan0 shows up, so the wifi part of the 5350 is
working.  But how do I get the device to instantiate wmx0?  I know the 5350
can't have both modes active at the same time, but I don't know what I need
to do to toggle it into WiMAX mode.

TIA

- Brian

y530:/var/log$ ls -l /lib/firmware/i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf
-r-xr--r-- 1 root root 1142480 2008-11-18 12:43
/lib/firmware/i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf


  Nov 21 12:11:07 y530 kernel: [   13.489171] iwlagn: Detected Intel
Wireless WiFi Link 5350AGN REV=0x24

and

  y530:/var/log$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:15:ea:54:97
          inet addr:192.168.2.13  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:15ff:feea:5497/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1043 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1036458 (1.0 MB)  TX bytes:198596 (198.5 KB)
          Interrupt:16

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:17444 (17.4 KB)  TX bytes:17444 (17.4 KB)

pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 76:1c:f9:a6:09:8b
          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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:eb:05:51:9e
          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)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-16-EB-05-51-9E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)





On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Thursday 20 November 2008, The Hereweb wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a 5350 EP module in a lenovo laptop, which I have dual-booting
> into
> > Vista and Ubuntu 8.10 (32 bit versions for each).  The 5350 is already
> > working under Vista just fine on XOHM so I the hardware I assume is good.
> >
> > Under Ubuntu, the device is visible to lsusb, and the lastest drivers
> load
> > ok after I built them.   (See dumps below)
> >
> > Although also note the "can't get device qualifier: Connection timed out"
> > and "can't get debug descriptor: Connection timed out" messages.  What's
> up
> > with that?
>
> Hmm, I don't really know -- maybe lsusb is asking for some information the
> device doesn't provide.
>
> So, does the driver load up? do you see a wmx0 device when running ifconfig
> wmx0?
>
> Did you double check if you have the firmware installed
> (i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf, from http://linuxwimax.org/Download)
>
> If still not, could you please send a kernel log?
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Inaky
>
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