getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Denise and Anthony
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Feb 24 07:19:53 2004
Ok, great! I got everything working - but when I go to shut down or
reboot my machine (a Pismo g3)
hangs on "Unloading Kernel Card Services" while stopping pcmcia. I have
to force a shutdown.
And then it hung on kudzu on the way back up. I had to go in single user
and chkconfig kudzu off for levels 4 & 5
(no big loss, since I usually do that anyway). Anyone got any ideas?
thx
anthony
Jim Pelton wrote:
>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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