getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Jim Pelton
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Feb 23 18:07:01 2004
Hmm...perhaps the driver is not being loaded? i think it is orinoco_cs.
--Jim
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:11, Alvaro Chavarria wrote:
> Mine isn't. I have a Proxim Orinoco Silver card and can't get it to
> work. The computer recognizes it and when i type "carctl ident" I get
> the card name but on the wizard I seem to be unable to activate it. Do
> you know which card type I should pick?
>
> anyone know how to get it to work?
>
> On 23 Feb, 2004, at 6:35 PM, Jim Pelton wrote:
>
> > 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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