getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Jim Pelton
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Feb 23 16:33:01 2004
Eth1 should work fine, as long as there are no other devices using eth1.
Is your card working now? --Jim
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 13:11, Nathan Kline wrote:
> yes, the cardmgr is now running so I'm half way there. just to make
> sure, the device name should be set to eth1?
> -Mitb
> [o÷<]
> 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,
> > 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
> > 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=yes
> > PCIC=yenta_socket
> > PCIC_OPTS=do_scan=0
> > CORE_OPTS=
> > CARDMGR_OPTS=-f
> > After a clean install, my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file had read
> > pcmcia=no
> > and pcic=*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
> > 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
> >> with
> >> this install.
> >>
> >> -Mitb
> >> [o÷<]
> >> 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=/lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia
> >>> - else
> >>> - PC=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia
> >>> - fi
> >>> - KD=/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=/lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia
> >>> +# else
> >>> +# PC=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia
> >>> +# fi
> >>> +# KD=/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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