getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Anthony Lanni
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Feb 23 21:02:01 2004
I have a Lucent Orinoco Silver; there's a Lucent Prism II PCMCIA
selection, that worked for me. Following the suggestions
in this thread, I was able to get my card working, but for one small
problem; when I shut down it hangs at stopping pcmcia with
the following message:
Stopping pcmcia: cardmgr[944]: executing: './network stop eth1'
cardmgr[944]: executing: 'modprobe -r orinoco'
cardmgr[944]: exiting
ti113x: Routing card interrupts to PCI
unloading Kernel Card Services
And there it sits. I have to force shutdown by holding the power key
down. Anyone got any ideas?
thx
anthony
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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