Ok, fist off, I am very new, and have probably already done some very wrong things trying to get this to work. I'm sorry, please be patient with me
I have a laptop that I have had Debian 3.0 on and, unfortunatly, I haven't done too much learning on it yet.
I was able to come across a wireless PCMCIA NIC (Linksys WPC11 ver. 3).
I checked, and there is a driver for this NIC in the orinoco_cs module that comes with Debian.
Debian is there, with PCMCIA working (at least it was a couple of months ago when I tested it with a wired NIC). Searching on the Net I found a couple of sites (Hardware HOWTO, ethernet HOWTO, etc.) that didn't specificaly cover what I was looking for, but I thought I could adapt the info fairly easily.
:::let me take this moment to explain that I don't know linux, and so when I say that I tried something, rest assured that I in fact do know what I was doing, I was just guessing for the most part and hoped some result would give me a hint. Oh, also this took place over an afternoon, so I don't remember all the logic I used to justify the steps I took...:::
This is all as root.
first I checked lsmod, and Orinoco_cs was not loaded. so I did "insmod orinoco_cs" It errored. Reading more of the website, I tried "modprobe orinoco_cs" no errors. lsmod shows it and it's dependencies loaded.
I added orinoco_cs to /etc/modules,
not knowing how to control VI, I really messed up /etc/network/interfaces
but I'm fairly sure that I got it back to default (if anyone wants to post what it should have by default, that would be nice).
I also added "alias eth0 orinoco_cs" to /etc/modules.conf despite the warnings at the beginning of the file. I tried for an hour to figure out how to work Debian's "update-modules" worked, and then gave up.
I don't know if this is important or not, but now at start up, the screen says the following:
loading modules: unix af_packet orinoco_cs Linux PCMCIA Car services 3.1.33
Kernal build: 2.2.20 #1 Sat April 20 11:45:28 Est 2002
options: [pci] pcardbus] [apm]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdf80
00:00.0 -> irq 10
00:0a.0 -> irq 11
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
/lib/modules/2.2.20/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
/lib/modules/2.2.20/pcmcia/ds.o insmod /lib/modules/2.2.20/pcmcia/ds.o failed unloading PCMCIA CArd Services
/lib/modules/2.2.20/pcmcia/ds.o: insmod orinoco_cs failed
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am good with just steps, but if you want to give some insight as to what the steps do and why, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, and more thanks for reading this far!
