WLI-PCM-L11 Buffalo Wireless problem

Jakass202 · 05-19-2003, 06:36 PM

This must come up time and time again .. but there are some of us who cant do it! I am one of these unfortunate people! I have redhat 9 installed ( clean ), i have a wireless pcmcia card, i have no clue how to get to come on or to talk to the network. THe card itself is WLI-PCM-L11 Buffalo - please remember that im stuck and any help would be much appreciated! Just a basic how to would be nice!

Jake

finegan · 05-19-2003, 09:39 PM

The Buffalo is just another orinoco chipset card, good thing too, you really can't get more supported then that.

First thing, is the driver loading? This command will tell you:

/sbin/lsmod

And there should be listed orinoco_cs, orinoco, and hermes, among many others.

Cheers,

Finegan

Jakass202 · 05-20-2003, 02:27 AM

Wow good thing. I do not see the orinoco_cs and others, have i missed something and do i need to install drivers?

Jakass202 · 05-20-2003, 04:37 AM

If it helps all i did was put the card into the laptop! And hardware browser in PCMCIA/PC-CArd Devices there is - Generic i82365-compatible PCMCIA controller! I dont see the buffalo at all :S!

finegan · 05-20-2003, 02:53 PM

First off, lets see if all the necessary toys are onboard:

locate orinoco_cs.o

Should turn up in /lib/modules/2.4.something/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

or thereabouts, right?

Then post back with the output of:

/sbin/cardctl ident

That'll give us the reading straight off of the card of what it thinks it is, then if you don't have an entry in the /etc/pcmcia/config table, we can add one.

Cheers,

Finegan

Jakass202 · 05-23-2003, 04:48 AM

Weird! One day i turn on the pc and funny thing it loads up! Wireless and stuff going!!!! So it works!!!!!! Dont ask how? Cus i dont know either!