I've got a Linksys WPC11 card and I am running RedHat 8 with all updates, running Kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0

I've attempted to follow all the advice I have found on here, and with now luck I am still sitting here with my wired net connection.

I know that my pcmcia-cs services are running version: kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9

I attempted to, based on previous info to upgrade the version, but it tells me that it is in-kernel and won't update anything except the utilities.

When my machine boots up, I get 1 small beep and large beep.

I've tried the hermes.conf file, i've tried the RPM releases that link to the wlan0.

I'm a newbie, been using linux for about 2 weeks...so I am not sure what else you may need for information. Let me know...

Thanks for any help that will get me wireless!
Adam


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UPDATE:
I, just for shit luck, decided I would boot up using the kernel 2.4.18-14 and it gave me the two nice beeps I want and loaded the wlan0 settings that I did earlier. But on this kernel, I can't get them working...

Well it seems that you got the linux-wlan modules to load properly. In order to make a connection to your router, you should just have to edit /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts and then reboot pcmcia with:

/etc/rc.d/inet.d/pcmcia restart

Make certain though that I'm not on a flake attack and you're actually using the linux-wlan modules, you should have something listed like "prism2_cs" with the command:

/sbin/lsmod

Cheers,

Finegan

I'm assuming you have the ver 3 card... I had no probs with the original card, but I "upgraded" and came upon this very same problem. I too tried the hermes thing and it didn't work for me either. I think I've still got the hermes file in the /etc/pcmcia folder, but I know it didn't work for me.

I added those lines from the hermes file to my /etc/pcmcia/config file. Mine looked like this: (your manfid address might be different)

#LinkSys WPC11
card "Instant Wireless Network PC Card"
manfid 0x0274, 0x1613 #Substitute your addressess here
bind "orinoco_cs"

I also told the network configuration program the ip address of my dhcp server, which for the linksys router has a default of 192.168.1.1

Finally, I chose managed for the wireles mode and specified the ssid of my network. I didn't use WEP.

I have no idea which of these things is the one that made it work because I did all three without checking them one at a time.

I did have to reboot and i did get a few error messages on login but I was able to activate the card. I'm using the card wireless now as I type this. I hope this works for you. I know the frustration you must be going through as I went through it for several days including a full reinstall from scratch.

good luck!

james

What kernel are you running? I still can't get this working...I know that if I go back to the original kernel shipped with Redhat 8, the wlan works fine...but with the new kernel I can't get shit to work.

Did redhat compile out the orinoco_cs module?

If a simple kernel swap is causing this derangement, unless they switched from in-kernel pcmcia to pcmcia-cs or vice versa, which would be really dumb... then the only reason I can think of offhand is that the module just isn't there for the new kernel.

Heck, compile it on in there.

http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/

Download one of the newest ones, nothing from the .12 series, make certain you're booted into the non-working kernel, compile them with a simple make, make install, hard restart pcmcia with: /etc/rc.d/inet.d/pcmcia restart, and see if it makes the 2 happy beeps.

If that doesn't hack it, what's the output of "dmesg" as it pertains to the card?

Cheers,

Finegan

I'm not really sure what's going on right now. Everyone keeps telling me reboot my pcmcia, I can do that...but when it restarts, I don't get ANY beeps at all. And everytime I reboot, I get a small beep and then a big beep.

I dunno..for some reason this doesn't want to work with me.

All working! I went to http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/rh80/index.html and downloaded the newest RPM for my kernel and I am wireless!

WOOHOO!