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Marvell Libertas Chipset not working


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Hello everybody!

I just got a new laptop (Everex StepNote 1500) and put Mepis onto it. Everything works fine, except for the wireless card. I know that the card exists and works because it worked under Vista before I wiped the hard drive. Ndiswrapper appears to be installed, but I'm not really sure what's going on with the system.

Output of lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
0000:00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
0000:00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 6364
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
0000:00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
0000:00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3371 (rev 01)
0000:04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
0000:05:01.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 43)

That last line is the device, I'm fairly certain. It doesn't show up on ifconfig or iwconfig, though.

Any help is appreciated!

Which MEPIS?

Not sure which MEPIS you are talking about, but check this thread on MepisLovers:

http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9166

Hope that helps.

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