liming wu
2011-Jun-08 03:27 UTC
[CentOS-virt] My CentOS in VMware can't find my wireless card
hi,
i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my
CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5)
in VMware.
And my wireless card is MERCURY 54U(Atheros AR5xxx).I plugged the USB card
into my virtual machine, but it couldn't be found.
I've tried two drivers in different time:
1)install ath5k:
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[root at wulmcent ~]# lsmod |grep ath5k
[root at wulmcent ~]# modprobe ath5k
[root at wulmcent ~]# lsmod |grep ath5k
ath5k 97001 0
mac80211 137545 1 ath5k
cfg80211 30793 2 ath5k,mac80211
[root at wulmcent ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:F5:3D:F3
inet addr:172.3.0.5 Bcast:172.3.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef5:3df3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1434 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1311085 (1.2 MiB) TX bytes:211106 (206.1 KiB)
Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2000
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:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB) TX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB)
[root at wulmcent ~]#
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2)install madwifi(0.9.4)
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[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# modprobe ath_pci
[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# lsmod|grep ath_pci
ath_pci 88868 0
wlan 181904 1 ath_pci
ath_hal 195536 1 ath_pci
[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:F5:3D:F3
inet addr:172.3.0.5 Bcast:172.3.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef5:3df3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1663 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1369453 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:239700 (234.0 KiB)
Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2000
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:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB) TX bytes:15568 (15.2 KiB)
[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# dmesg |grep ath5k
[root at wulmcent madwifi-0.9.4]# dmesg |grep ath
device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath_pci: 0.9.4
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As the message displayed above, my system didn't find my wireless card.
I don't know what to do to fix it.
I need your help, thank you!
===woo
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> hi, > ? ?i'm woo,?I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) > in VMware. > And my wireless card is MERCURY 54U(Atheros AR5xxx).I plugged the USB card > into my virtual machine, but it couldn't be found.First off. Which VMWare program are you using? There are some pretty big differences between the Player/Workstation/Server family and the ESX(i)/vSphere family of products. ESX you can pretty much write that idea off unless you have a newer system that supports Intel's VT-d (or AMD's equivalent). Player is a bit different if it's a usb device as you can attach to the guest a required. Assuming Player, are you *absolutely sure* that you connected the USB device to the guest per VMware's procedures? If yes, what's the output of "lsusb"? We need to know *if* it's being seen by the guest at all to begin with. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown
Phil Schaffner
2011-Jun-10 22:13 UTC
[CentOS-virt] My CentOS in VMware can't find my wireless card
liming wu wrote on 06/07/2011 11:27 PM:> i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my > CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5) in VMware.You would probably have a better chance of getting drivers to work if you were not using a seriously obsolete release. The current and only supported release is 5.6. Phil