Hello all - trying to get my Linksys wpc11 wireless pcmcia card up and running on my Red Hat 8.0 box. Running the 2.4 kernel - also have the latest pcmcia-cs.

I have compiled and installed the wlan-ng version 0.1.16 pre6. - Compiled from source - all went fine.

I edited all the necessary files per the readme and what I could find on the net - This includes the following:

/etc/wlan/wlan.conf:
/etc/wlan/wlancfg-"mySSID"

I copied over the wlancfg-DEFAULT to wlancfg-"mySSID' and set the wlan.conf file to use that SSID.

also created /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 with my IP settings - which are at DHCP.

Created an alias in /etc/modules.conf for 'alias wlan0 prism2_cs'

I did not edit the /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts as there was not one, I do not beleive the newest version uses it. I did look at wireless.opts but saw nothing in there i needed to change.

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I restarted pcmcia:
'Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgr modulesds: Device or resource busy.
yenta_socket: Device or resource busy
pcmcia_core: Device or resource busy
.
Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr.
$
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Though it gave Device or resource busy, it looked like it restarted fine.

I then insert my card and nothing. I try bringing up wlan0 and it says device not found -

So for some reason, my comp is not recognizing wlan0 - I do not know why.

Anyone Have Any Ideas of What I Could Try?

Thanks

Well, I got it working finally. Looks like the wlan-ng and wlan-ng.opts files were in my pcmcia src dir and not the /etc/pcmcia dir where I thought they were....My fault because I obviously said yes when asked where to put them in the compile.

I moved them and parsed the files manually and it came up.