getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Nathan Kline
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Feb 23 18:19:01 2004
No it isn't, This D-link card is the latest revision of the DWL-650 and =20=
is most likely not one that will work with that driver
I did purchase an orinoco silver card from ebay for 22$ so I will see =20=
if that works.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?=20
ViewItem&item=3D3078905439&category=3D45000
there is the link in case anyone wants to get one too. $22.95 and I =20
think there are 11 left.
-Mitb
[o=F7<]
On Feb 23, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Jim Pelton wrote:
> Eth1 should work fine, as long as there are no other devices using =20
> 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=C3=B7<]
>> 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 =
=20
>>> is
>>> a RealTek chipset or something, and is not totally supported out of =20=
>>> 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
>>> 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 =20=
>>> to
>>> use Windows drivers for WLAN devices on Linux machines. It's about =20=
>>> $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=C3=83=C2=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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