getting a wireless PCMCIA Card to work
Nathan Kline
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Mar 1 18:19:02 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 =20
>>>>> 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 =20=
>>>>> 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 =20=
>>>>> of 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 =20=
>>>>> you 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 =20=
>>>>>> 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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