All,

I have a Dell Latitude CPi266 that I recently installed RedHat 9 on. I want to use my Symbol LA-4121 PCMCIA Wireless card with this unit.

During 1st boot, the system SEEMED to hang on "enabling swap space". After waiting several minutes, I rebooted the system. Kudzu then ran and asked me if I wanted to keep, remove, or do nothing with the "Symbol Technologies" etc etc config. I chose "keep". I believe that I goofed by doing the reboot as something may have not initialized properly on the 1st boot.

I've done some Goog'ling on my NIC, and it seems it should be supported by the orinoco driver, although these drivers are not loaded at start up. I seem to be currently using the Kernel card services. Prehaps I need to use the PCMCIA card services package? I manually loaded the hermes, orinoco, and orinoco_cs drivers to no avail. The card still has no light(s). I also have no eth0 interface, even after manually creating "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0".

Below is the output of all relevant commands and files:

[root@localhost /]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE="eth0"
ONBOOT="yes"
BOOTPROTO="none"
IPADDR="192.168.0.78"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
NETWORK="192.168.0.0"
BROADCAST="192.168.0.255"

[root@localhost network-scripts]# /sbin/cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Symbol Technologies", "LA4111 Spectrum24 Wireless LAN PC Card", "1.00"
manfid: 0x014d, 0x0001
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available


[root@localhost network-scripts]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 1 (autoclean)
vfat 13004 1 (autoclean)
fat 38808 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
orinoco_cs 5864 0 (unused)
orinoco 36024 0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes 8196 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ds 8680 2 [orinoco_cs]
yenta_socket 13472 2
pcmcia_core 57216 0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
ide-cd 35708 1 (autoclean)
cdrom 33728 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70784 1
jbd 51892 1 [ext3]


[root@localhost network-scripts]# /sbin/lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation MagicGraph 128XD
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Memory at fdd00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]

00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0074
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0074
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at 0860 [size=16]

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ece0 [size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9


Aug 29 04:17:39 localhost kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
Aug 29 04:17:39 localhost kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Aug 29 04:17:39 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
Aug 29 04:17:39 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.1
Aug 29 04:17:39 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.1
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0618, PCI irq11
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: Socket status: 30000010
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0618, PCI irq11
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: Socket status: 30000006
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost sshd: succeeded
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Aug 29 04:17:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x210-0x217 0x220-0x22f 0x280-0x287 0x378-0x37f
0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Aug 29 04:17:41 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Aug 29 04:17:41 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.

Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr.
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost cardmgr[1467]: starting, version is 3.1.31
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost cardmgr[1467]: watching 2 sockets
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost cardmgr[1467]: Card Services release does not match
Aug 29 04:17:35 localhost kernel: Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Aug 29 04:17:36 localhost cardmgr[1467]: unsupported card in socket 0
Aug 29 04:17:36 localhost kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Aug 29 04:17:36 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded
Aug 29 04:17:36 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Aug 29 04:17:36 localhost cardmgr[1467]: product info: "Symbol Technologies", "LA4111 Spectrum24 Wireless LAN PC Card", "1.00"
Aug 29 04:17:36 localhost kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 143k freed
Aug 29 04:17:36 localhost cardmgr[1467]: manfid: 0x014d, 0x0001 function: 6 (network)

[root@localhost network-scripts]# /sbin/ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:21313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1455924 (1.3 Mb) TX bytes:1455924 (1.3 Mb)


[root@localhost network-scripts]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

Notice the "unsupported card message". From what I have read, this card should be supported.

Anyone have any advice?

Thanks!

Carl

This actually seems to be a Spectrum24 card, not a normal symbol card...

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...s.drivers.html

Skip down to entry 17.

Also, hand modprobing normal pcmcia modules won't word... its works with cardbus cards, but cardmgr has to load and bind these, so if its actually an orinoco_cs covered symbol card, you'll have to hack up /etc/pcmcia/config to cover it.

Post back if you get stuck.

Cheers,

Finegan