getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Nathan Kline
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Feb 26 21:05:01 2004
well, I got the Orinoco silver card today and I popped it in and went =20=
through the configuration but still a no go. I went to the terminal and =20=
did "cardctl ident" and got this:
Socket 1:
product info: "Agere Systems", "Wireless PC Card Model =
0110, "", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0003
function: 6 (network)
well in the list of possible drivers in Network Configuration i have =20
three Lucent drivers:
=09
Lucent Orinoco and Prism II-based PCMCIA
Lucent Orinoco/Melco PCMCIA (alternate)
Lucent/Agere/Melco PCMCIA (alternate)
well it seems obvious that I should use the Lucent/Agere/Melco PCMCIA =20=
(alternate) but when i select it i get this error:
modprobe wvlan_cs
modprobe: Can't locate module wvlan_cs
the Lucent Orinoco and Prism II-based PCMCIA loads fine but the two =20
alternate ones give me that error (the Lucent Orinoco/Melco PCMCIA =20
(alternate) of course names a different driver that it cant find)
Where should i look to find these or what should i do so i can load the =20=
correct driver?
-Mitb
[o=F7<]
On Feb 23, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Nathan Kline wrote:
> No it isn't, This D-link card is the latest revision of the DWL-650 =20=
> and 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 =20
>>>> 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 =20
>>>> 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 =20
>>>> wpc11 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 =20=
>>>> your
>>>> chipset to work. There are drivers online which you may compile and
>>>> install, though support for others seems pretty weak by comparison =20=
>>>> 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 =20=
>>>>> 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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