Wavelan wireless card

Edward G Finegan yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Jun 1 12:11:01 2002


I think the biggest problem is lack info. Paul Lucas page was great but 
wasn't for the 2.4 kernel. Maybe we should compare notes and try to 
creat a better, more indepth howto.

Shawn Coomey wrote:

> I here that.
>
> I went through the same process about 3 months ago, and it was a bear. 
> Most of my problems were due to the fact that I don't have an 
> officially supported card (Farallon SkyLine - which ended up working 
> with the Orinoco Prism II drivers). Seriously, it was about 16 hours 
> of tinkering to get it to work.
>
> S
>
>
> On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 10:08 AM, Edward G Finegan wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the help, but after a long nights sleep I seemed to have 
>> fixed the problem by changing a few settings to "auto". As soon as I 
>> get my thoughts together I will post the instructions that I 
>> followed, since there isn't much documentation out there for this setup.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ed
>>
>>
>> Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Edward G Finegan wrote:
>>>
>>>> However i'm having problems at the very last step. When i run
>>>>
>>>> SCHEME=home /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
>>>>
>>>> it outputs
>>>>
>>>> cardmgr[4891]: watching 1 sockets
>>>> cardmgr[4891]: Card Services release dose not match
>>>>
>>>
>>>     Well, I've never seen that before.  I assume you did actually
>>>     create a "home" scheme, right?
>>>
>>>> and the light on the card stays on untill i try to ifup eth1, it 
>>>> will then show up by doing an ifconfig, but will not have an IP, it 
>>>> is tring to use DHCP but seems to fail.
>>>>
>>>
>>>     It would help if you gave more information like whether you are
>>>     having the Airport base station also do DHCP.  (I personally
>>>     don't have my base station do DHCP.)
>>>
>>>     - Paul
>>>
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