I'll try to describe in very detail what I've done so far. I've got no further clues on what I'm doing wrong.

Im trying to get my Wireless card running and this is the story (If you're not interested in blah blah, you can skip this):
3 weeks ago I was sitting in the park with my Laptop (WinXp) and thinking about my TextureManager of some OpenGL application I was trying to code (educational purposes). Suddenly I had enough of it because I had done nothing else in the past weeks. I started browsing on my local HD, sorting mp3's (deleting them), reading some fun texts and I found a text about Wireless LANs. After reading it I had to buy one of those tiny PCMCIA cards for my Laptop. When I got home I connected to the internet and looked for some useful software. After installing and deleting some of them I found Netstumbler and installed it. On the next day I went to the park again. This time I had my laptop running in my backpack and every 100 meters it made BEEP. After finding a neat spot to sit in the park i took my Laptop out and surprise, I found 34 Hotspots (2 of them still in reach). I made my self comfortable and started to read some texts I downloaded yesterday. After reading I concluded that there is no "cool" software for Windows and that this was the perfect Situation for starting to learn some Linux and having some fun by the way. In the evening I started to download the Slackware 9.1 iso's and I installed it several days later. I started making my self a bit familiar with KDE ( I'm running Gnome on one other machine (so I have both now ^^)).

Please notice that I have already put much efford in this and that most thing that are only one line below took me a whole day or even longer.

First the card seemd like dead. All lights were off.
Googlin a bit and i found out that I had to upgrade to kernel 2.6.7.
After learning on how to install new kernels. I compiled 2.6.7 and the lights went on on boot up.
My card is a "802.11g Linksys" so looked for some drivers. I didn' notice the importance of the "g" so I was busy with doing stupid things (e.g. installing kernel 2.6.8 and undoing it).
Later I patched my kernel (2.6.7) with the prism54 patch and compiled everything.
I copied the firmware.agent and did "chmod +x /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent".
And now I'm stuck.

Some more Information:
lsmod returns:
Module Used by
prism54 0
firmware_class 1 prism54
ds 4
yenta_socket 1
pcmcia_core 2 ds,yenta_socket

hotplug returns:
firmware ieee1394 net pci scsi usb

ksyms no matter with what params returns:
ksyms: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented

cardctl status returns:
Socket 0:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]

cardctl ident returns:
Socket 0:
no product info available

"/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia start" tells me it's already running

ifconfig returns my eth0 and the loopback...

iwconfig returns:
eth0 no wireless extensions
lo no wireless extensions

Shouldn't it return eth1 and something more?

Why doesn't ksyms work?
Is it the firmware.agent not used by the hotplug thing?
What does it mean to mount sysfs?
If someone knows whats wrong could you please tell me?

I really want to apologize if these questions seem dumb but I can't find any helping info.
If my problem was discussed somewhere else would you bother and drop me a link ?

Thanks in advance.


Because of the length and readability I posted dmesg and my .config of the prism54 patched 2.6.7 kernel as response to this post.

here my .config:
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
# CONFIG_AUDIT is not set
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
# CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
CONFIG_KMOD=y

#
# Processor type and features
#
CONFIG_X86_PC=y
# CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER is not set
# CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is not set
# CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT is not set
# CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VISWS is not set
# CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH is not set
# CONFIG_X86_ES7000 is not set
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set
CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMM is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set
# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
# CONFIG_MK8 is not set
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
# CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set
# CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
# CONFIG_HPET_TIMER is not set
# CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC is not set
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
# CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
# CONFIG_I8K is not set
# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
# CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set

#
# Firmware Drivers
#
# CONFIG_EDD is not set
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
# CONFIG_REGPARM is not set

#
# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
#
# CONFIG_PM is not set

#
# ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
#
# CONFIG_ACPI is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y

#
# CPU Frequency scaling
#
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set

#
# Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)
#
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y
CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
# CONFIG_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
# CONFIG_SCx200 is not set

#
# PCMCIA/CardBus support
#
CONFIG_PCMCIA=m
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_YENTA=m
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
CONFIG_I82092=m
# CONFIG_TCIC is not set

#
# PCI Hotplug Support
#
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set

#
# Executable file formats
#
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y

#
# Device Drivers
#

#
# Generic Driver Options
#
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m

#
# Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
#
# CONFIG_MTD is not set

#
# Parallel port support
#
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set

#
# Plug and Play support
#

#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CARMEL is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_LBD is not set

#
# ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
#
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y

#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_ARM is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set

#
# SCSI device support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS is not set

#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set

#
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING is not set

#
# SCSI Transport Attributes
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS is not set

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DMX3191D is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IPS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IPR is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA21XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA22XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2300 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2322 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA6312 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLA6322 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DC395x is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NSP32 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG is not set

#
# PCMCIA SCSI adapter support
#
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_AHA152X is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_FDOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_NINJA_SCSI is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_QLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_SYM53C500 is not set

#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
# CONFIG_MD is not set

#
# Fusion MPT device support
#
# CONFIG_FUSION is not set

#
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
#
# CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set

#
# I2O device support
#
# CONFIG_I2O is not set

#
# Networking support
#
CONFIG_NET=y

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_NET_KEY=y
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
CONFIG_INET_AH=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y
# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
# CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set
CONFIG_XFRM=y
CONFIG_XFRM_USER=y

#
# SCTP Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
# CONFIG_IP_SCTP is not set
# CONFIG_ATM is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set
# CONFIG_DECNET is not set
# CONFIG_LLC2 is not set
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_X25 is not set
# CONFIG_LAPB is not set
# CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set

#
# QoS and/or fair queueing
#
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set

#
# Network testing
#
# CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN is not set
# CONFIG_NETPOLL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is not set
# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set
# CONFIG_IRDA is not set
# CONFIG_BT is not set
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
# CONFIG_BONDING is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_TUN is not set

#
# ARCnet devices
#
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL=y
CONFIG_SUNGEM=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL3=y
CONFIG_ELMC=y
CONFIG_ELMC_II=y
CONFIG_VORTEX=y
CONFIG_TYPHOON=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_ULTRAMCA=y

#
# Tulip family network device support
#
CONFIG_NET_TULIP=y
CONFIG_TULIP=m
# CONFIG_TULIP_MMIO is not set
# CONFIG_TULIP_NAPI is not set
CONFIG_DE4X5=m
CONFIG_WINBOND_840=m
CONFIG_DM9102=m
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRCOM is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRTULIP is not set
CONFIG_DEPCA=y
CONFIG_HP100=y
CONFIG_NE2_MCA=y
CONFIG_IBMLANA=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCNET32=y
CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH=y
CONFIG_AMD8111E_NAPI=y
CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE=y
CONFIG_DGRS=y
CONFIG_EEPRO100=y
# CONFIG_EEPRO100_PIO is not set
CONFIG_E100=y
CONFIG_E100_NAPI=y
CONFIG_FEALNX=y
CONFIG_NATSEMI=y
CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=y
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
# CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER=y
CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y
# CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET is not set
CONFIG_SIS900=y
CONFIG_EPIC100=y
CONFIG_SUNDANCE=y
# CONFIG_SUNDANCE_MMIO is not set
CONFIG_TLAN=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO=y

#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_ACENIC is not set
# CONFIG_DL2K is not set
# CONFIG_E1000 is not set
# CONFIG_NS83820 is not set
# CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set
# CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set
# CONFIG_R8169 is not set
# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
# CONFIG_TIGON3 is not set

#
# Ethernet (10000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_IXGB is not set
# CONFIG_S2IO is not set

#
# Token Ring devices
#
# CONFIG_TR is not set

#
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
#
CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y

#
# Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11)
#
# CONFIG_STRIP is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_WAVELAN is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETWAVE is not set

#
# Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support
#
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_RAYCS is not set

#
# Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support
#
# CONFIG_AIRO is not set
CONFIG_HERMES=m
CONFIG_PLX_HERMES=m
CONFIG_TMD_HERMES=m
# CONFIG_PCI_HERMES is not set
# CONFIG_ATMEL is not set

#
# Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support
#
CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES=m
# CONFIG_AIRO_CS is not set
CONFIG_PCMCIA_WL3501=m

#
# Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support
#
CONFIG_PRISM54=m
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y

#
# PCMCIA network device support
#
CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C589 is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C574 is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_FMVJ18X is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_PCNET is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_NMCLAN is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_SMC91C92 is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRC2PS is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_AXNET is not set

#
# Wan interfaces
#
# CONFIG_WAN is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set
CONFIG_PPP=m
# CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK is not set
# CONFIG_PPP_FILTER is not set
# CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC is not set
# CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY is not set
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=m
# CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP is not set
# CONFIG_PPPOE is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FC is not set
# CONFIG_SHAPER is not set
# CONFIG_NETCONSOLE is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# Telephony Support
#
# CONFIG_PHONE is not set

#
# Input device support
#
CONFIG_INPUT=y

#
# Userland interfaces
#
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set

#
# Input I/O drivers
#
# CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
# CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_PCIPS2 is not set

#
# Input Device Drivers
#
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_LKKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
# CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_VSXXXAA is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set

#
# Serial drivers
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CS is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED is not set

#
# Non-8250 serial port support
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
# CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set

#
# IPMI
#
# CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER is not set

#
# Watchdog Cards
#
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set
# CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
# CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not set
# CONFIG_DTLK is not set
# CONFIG_R3964 is not set
# CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set
# CONFIG_SONYPI is not set

#
# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
#
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_AGP is not set
# CONFIG_DRM is not set

#
# PCMCIA character devices
#
CONFIG_SYNCLINK_CS=m
# CONFIG_MWAVE is not set
# CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is not set
# CONFIG_HANGCHECK_TIMER is not set

#
# I2C support
#
# CONFIG_I2C is not set

#
# Misc devices
#
# CONFIG_IBM_ASM is not set

#
# Multimedia devices
#
# CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set

#
# Digital Video Broadcasting Devices
#
# CONFIG_DVB is not set

#
# Graphics support
#
# CONFIG_FB is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set

#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y

#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set

#
# USB support
#
# CONFIG_USB is not set

#
# USB Gadget Support
#
# CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set

#
# File systems
#
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS is not set
# CONFIG_JBD is not set
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y

#
# CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
#
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
# CONFIG_ZISOFS is not set
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y

#
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
#
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

#
# Pseudo filesystems
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
# CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is not set
# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
CONFIG_RAMFS=y

#
# Miscellaneous filesystems
#
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BEFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set
# CONFIG_VXFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set

#
# Network File Systems
#
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_NFS_V3 is not set
# CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set
# CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set
CONFIG_NFSD=y
# CONFIG_NFSD_V3 is not set
# CONFIG_NFSD_TCP is not set
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
# CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CIFS is not set
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFS_FS is not set

#
# Partition Types
#
# CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y

#
# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=m
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932=m
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250=m
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set

#
# Profiling support
#
CONFIG_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_OPROFILE=y

#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP is not set
# CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set
# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set

#
# Security options
#
# CONFIG_SECURITY is not set

#
# Cryptographic options
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC=y
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_NULL is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD4 is not set
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=y
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512 is not set
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES=y
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLOWFISH is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_SERPENT is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST5 is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST6 is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4 is not set
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C is not set
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEST is not set

#
# Library routines
#
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=m
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT=y

and here what dmesg returns:
Linux version 2.6.7 (root@lancet-3) (gcc version 3.2.3) #1 Thu Jul 29
12:43:23 CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000dff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dff0000 - 000000000dff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dff8000 - 000000000e000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
223MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 57328
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 53232 pages, LIFO batch:12
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 97 and too
old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.6.7 ro root=301
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes)
Detected 997.713 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 223216k/229312k available (2253k kernel code, 5416k reserved, 902k
data, 244k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1978.36 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb31, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Uncovering SIS18 that hid as a SIS503 (compatible=0)
Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0018] at 0000:00:01.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:03.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try
pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:01.4
Machine check exception polling timer started.
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
udf: registering filesystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 8250
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:01.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:01.1
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550
11/16/96 03:45:15
FW Version=$Version$
pcnet32.c:v1.30c 05.25.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:01.6
eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:a0:cc:c6:1c:c5.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
hdc: QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 4.1
Sensor: 8
new absolute packet format
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first block
18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1)
ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed
Adding 1959888k swap on /dev/hda7. Priority:-1 extents:1
FAT: invalid media value (0x94)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda6.
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:01.4
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [1584:3000]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00b0, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000821
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might
be trying access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might
be trying access hardware directly.

no ideas?

There is a 'Linux - Wireless Networking' forum. If you ask a moderator to move your post to there, it might have a better chance of being answered. You could also try searching the forum to see if there are others that have had similar problems and have found solutions.

Good luck, I hope you get it fixed!

At
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
I couldn't find any tested AVS for my card does that mean I can screw my self?


VENDOR WLAN TYPE PRODUCT ID HOST I/F CHIPSET AVS Tested User/Vendor Report COMMENTS
Linksys 802.11g WPC54G Cardbus Broadcom


Now I'll check out what "ndiswrapper" is...

Let's take a look at the output of the following commands:

/sbin/lspci

That'll tell us what's on the PCI bus, if its a newer cardbus card it'll probably be here.

/sbin/cardctl ident

That'll take the reading right off of the card.

/sbin/iwconfig

Just in case there's a driver loaded properly, that'll bring back some fun info.

Cheers,

Finegan

I already wrote the response of "cardctl ident" and "iwconfig"
but to give a complete answer:

root@lancet-3:~# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 31)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 82)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 07)
00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 07)
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev a0)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:03.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6812 Cardbus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 31)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4320 (rev 03)
root@lancet-3:~# /sbin/cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
root@lancet-3:~# /sbin/iwconfig
-bash: /sbin/iwconfig: No such file or directory

Thank you for answering. Do you have any other ideas on what could be wrong?

Sorry, I missed the previous post, its indeed a Broadcom card, who have never supported Linux.

ndiswrapper, its a driver that actually wraps for the windows driver for the card:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

Post back if you get stuck.

Cheers,

Finegan

Ok, I got a bit further:
"ndiwrapper" should have the right driver:
(ndiswrapper -l returns: lsbcmnds present(I think it means LinkSysBroadCoM NDS or sumthin) )
the ndiswrapper module is loaded:
lsmod returns: ndiswrapper, ds, yenta_socket amd pcmcia_core

The Value at Used by (lsmod) changes from 1 to 0 when I remove the Card.
This seems everything ok.

But iwconfig returns:
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless...
and wlan0 no wireless... too

I tried <iwconfig wlan0 essid "wireless">
and <iwconfig wlan0 essid any>
but both return: <Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.>

Well at least this wlan0 appeared without being created by my hand.

By the way, dmesg returns:
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0c:41:c7:88:16 using driver bcmwl5.sys

BroadComWirelessLan5.sys I guess... this should be the driver ndiswrapper found with the inf-file.

Thankyou for your time finegan. Any Idea what could be wrong now?
I'm not sure if you have read everything above (no, not the .conf file) but Im pretty new to Linux and still fighting with my Slackware-distro.

It seems like many people have problems with their Broadcom Chipsets...

You've probably loaded the wrong INF file with ndiswrapper, for my realtek 8180 it took it a while to track down an INF that worked, I finally got one with the older version of the win2k driver... its a crapshoot. Just keep trying until one returns wireless extensions. You also might want to look through the ndiswrapper mailing list, or maybe its a wiki, to find what file works with your chipset.

Cheers,

Finegan

Forget about the last post. The kernel was just configured wrong. Everything seems to work now.

Gotcha...

Excellent, hope you enjoy it.

Cheers,

Finegan

Just for those with the same problem:
My card was a:
Linksys WPC54G
With:
54mbps
Chipset: Broadcom BCM4306
pciid: 14E4:4320


If the power is off and you are running a kernel older than 2.6.7 than thats probably the problem.
Configuration:
"Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)" should be yes
PCMCIA should be yes (maybe some suboption too. Cant remember so well (just read everything))

Note: ACPI should be on when compiled in the kernel.

If "iwconfig" returns no wireless extionsion (not even wlan0) than:
Have you installed ndiswrapper? (follow the instructions in the "install" notes)

Now, if you have installed Ndiswrapper and "wlan0" appears but it is still no wireless than did you compile your kernel with configuration "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)" "yes" ?


The driver I used with ndiswrapper was the one from the linksys Homepage (for my card mentioned above):
http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=134
You have to extract it in any folder and after installing ndiswrapper type (in my case):
ndiswrapper -i /my/path/to/lsbcmnds.inf
(there were to different inf files i took this one since I believed it meant LinkSysBroadCoM MNDS (and it worked))
note that this is also well explaned in the install file of ndiswrapper

Here some Useful Links for people with other cards:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/s..._chipsets.html

Here some useful Links:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/faq.html
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/articl...40507104718960

If any body has still problems with this, Id be happy to answer per E-mail LancetOnipray@gmx.de
If anybody notices the same questions mentioned here earlier somewhere else just guide them here.

Congratulations on getting it done! I have the same card, and finally gave up and paid $19 for Drivereloader to be able to use the Windows drivers. That works fine, after some tweaking by support to get around the fact that the network loads before the card, but I would have liked to do it your way.