getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Nathan Kline
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Feb 23 13:06:02 2004
yes, the cardmgr is now running so I'm half way there. just to make =20
sure, the device name should be set to eth1?
-Mitb
[o=F7<]
On Feb 23, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Jim Pelton wrote:
> I struggled a while with my Wallstreet 266 and a Linksys wpc11 =
v.3
> card. I tried many cards, because I initially wanted a 54MBps card, =20=
> but
> those chip-sets are not supported very well yet under YDL.
> I recommend you use a card with the Orinoco PrismII chip-set =
because =20
> it
> seems to be widely supported. You can check the net to find out what
> chip-set your D-Link has in it. Be careful because cards are packaged
> under the same model, but with different chip-sets! For example my
> Linksys wpc11 v.3 has the PrismII chip-set, however v.4 of the wpc11 =
is
> a RealTek chipset or something, and is not totally supported out of =
the
> box by YDL.
> If you have a PrismII card, you should check this file:
> /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia:
> It should read:
> PCMCIA=3Dyes
> PCIC=3Dyenta_socket
> PCIC_OPTS=3Ddo_scan=3D0
> CORE_OPTS=3D
> CARDMGR_OPTS=3D-f
> After a clean install, my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file had read =20=
> pcmcia=3Dno
> and pcic=3D*blank*.
> This is the only change I had to make. After I made the change, =
I
> restarted pcmcia services. cardmgr launched and recognized the card
> (with two similar beeps). Then you can add the card via
> redhat-config-network as an Orinoco/PrismII card.
> If you do not have a PrismII card, you may still be able to get =
your
> chipset to work. There are drivers online which you may compile and
> install, though support for others seems pretty weak by comparison to
> PrismII. Or you can get the Linuxant DriverLoader, which allows you to
> use Windows drivers for WLAN devices on Linux machines. It's about $40 =
=20
> i
> believe. Hope this helps, Jim
>
> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 09:59, Nathan Kline wrote:
>> hmm I edited my /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia file as specified in your
>> script and yet cardmgr is still not running even after a reboot.
>>
>> I have a D-link dwl-650 card on a powerbook walstreet running YLD
>> 3.0.1. When I go into the network configuration panel I set up a new
>> network device and select the D-link 650 driver (the IRQ is set to
>> unknown, should this be different?) and the device is eth1. I then
>> activate it and I get this error:
>>
>> "pcnet_cs device does not seem to be present, delaying eth1
>> initialization."
>>
>> any light you or anyone else might be able to shed on this would be
>> greatly appreciated. so far this is hte only snag I have run into =20=
>> with
>> this install.
>>
>> -Mitb
>> [o=C3=B7<]
>> On Feb 23, 2004, at 7:27 AM, george_geller@earthlink.net wrote:
>>
>>> First make sure that your /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia is working and
>>> launching cardmgr.
>>>
>>> Is cardmgr running? To find out do a ps -aux | grep card
>>>
>>> Mine shows:
>>> root 414 0.0 0.2 1604 708 ? S 05:31 0:00
>>> /sbin/cardmgr -f
>>>
>>> If you don't have cardmgr running, pcmcia cards will not work.
>>>
>>> I had to change /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia according to this script:
>>>
>>> --- pcmcia.01 2004-02-06 05:42:28.000000000 -0800
>>> +++ pcmcia 2004-01-17 08:14:00.000000000 -0800
>>> @@ -96,27 +96,31 @@
>>> if [ ! -f $SC ] ; then umask 022 ; touch $SC ; fi
>>> if [ "$SCHEME" ] ; then umask 022 ; echo $SCHEME > $SC ; fi
>>> grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices
>>> - if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
>>> - if [ -d /lib/modules/preferred ] ; then
>>> - PC=3D/lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia
>>> - else
>>> - PC=3D/lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia
>>> - fi
>>> - KD=3D/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/pcmcia
>>> - if [ -d $PC ] ; then
>>> - echo -n " modules"
>>> - /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core $CORE_OPTS
>>> - /sbin/modprobe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS
>>> - /sbin/modprobe ds
>>> - elif [ -d $KD ] ; then
>>> - /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core
>>> - /sbin/modprobe $PCIC
>>> - /sbin/modprobe ds
>>> - else
>>> - echo $" module directory $PC not found."
>>> - break
>>> - fi
>>> - fi
>>> +# if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
>>> +# if [ -d /lib/modules/preferred ] ; then
>>> +# PC=3D/lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia
>>> +# else
>>> +# PC=3D/lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia
>>> +# fi
>>> +# KD=3D/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/pcmcia
>>> +# if [ -d $PC ] ; then
>>> +# echo -n " modules"
>>> +# /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core $CORE_OPTS
>>> +# /sbin/modprobe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS
>>> +# /sbin/modprobe ds
>>> +# elif [ -d $KD ] ; then
>>> +# /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core
>>> +# /sbin/modprobe $PCIC
>>> +# /sbin/modprobe ds
>>> +# else
>>> +# echo $" module directory $PC not found."
>>> +# break
>>> +# fi
>>> +# fi
>>> + /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core
>>> + /sbin/modprobe $PCIC
>>> + /sbin/modprobe ds
>>> +
>>> if [ -s /var/run/cardmgr.pid ] && \
>>> kill -0 `cat /var/run/cardmgr.pid` 2>/dev/null ; then
>>> echo $" cardmgr is already running."
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> George
>>>
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