Calling all wireless geeks!!!

I'm putting together a list of wireless pcmcia cards, that hopefully will get added to hermes.conf, and hence one day make it into pcmcia-cs and then into... distros! So, if you can think of a prism2 based card or symbol based card that isn't currently listed on:

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

here, and that you've got working with orinoco_cs, could you post up the output of:

dmesg (with regard to the card, please not your whole dmesg)

/sbin/cardctl ident

and whatever hack line you've added to hermes.conf or /etc/pcmcia/config

Right now, here are the biggies that I already have and are missing:

Linksys WPC11 v3

Netgear MA401RA (I swear there's a Netgear 401, not with an RA in its ident, please prove me right...)

Microsoft MN-520 (no kidding, this is a prism2 card!)

Got anymore?

Cheers,

Finegan

You are correct. there is a Netgear MA401, I am the not-so-proud owner of it.

There's irony for you, greetings from off of Collier Rd.

Have you got an "/sbin/cardctl ident" for it?

Cheers,

Finegan

Back at 'cha. Greetings from Peachtree St. I am at work, the card is at home. I am having trouble getting anywhere with the card and don't have time to work on it tonight. I will get back to you when I know something.

finegan,
Myself along with countless others would love to know when you have the Linksys "Instant Wireless" WPC11 v3 operational. Hell, I will take semi-operational I would also like to know if there is anything I can do to assist with this project.

gadfly

Its operational, under orinoco_cs it was still flaky into .11b, but through the .13X series the driver was changed to accomodate for it. David Gibson rocks!

.11b is still kernel current though, but its easier to compile a newer version against an old kernel. .13c got sent off to Marcello for 2.4.21... maybe

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

Then add this entry into hermes.conf after the"make install"


card "Linksys WPC11"
manfid 0x0274,0x1613
bind "orinoco_cs"

That'll make pcmcia's cardmgr bind orinoco_cs.o to the card.

Right now I'm just trying to collect card ident's for the conf file that will eventually get added to the pcmcia-cs /etc/pcmcia/config file and make this an out-of-the-box card for more distros.

David Gibson and the other brilliant contributors to the orinoco driver have already done the work, their kung-fu is masterful, check it out.

Cheers,

Finegan

finegan,
Thanks, that is working...somewhat. I am using .13 and the card is good at boot, I configure it with 'iwconfig' and all is good there too, now I just do not know how to make my box use that connection. Should eth1 also show up under'ifconfig' too, not just 'iwconfig'? Also at boot the card does not attempt to pull an IP from the DHCP server. So I guess I just need to add the WPC11 as a second connection. I do not know how to do that. So I guess what I am looking for is a tutorial or how-to on making the wifi card the primary connection.

gadfly

finegan... I think you already have it listed in your hermes.conf but you don't have the manfid line. If you already have this, I'm sorry

Here is what I added to /etc/pcmcia/config

card "Netgear MA401-RA"
manfid 0x000b, 0x7300
bind "orinoco_cs"

Hope I haven't wasted your time.

Originally posted by gadfly finegan, Thanks, that is working...somewhat. I am using .13 and the card is good at boot, I configure it with 'iwconfig' and all is good there too, now I just do not know how to make my box use that connection. Should eth1 also show up under'ifconfig' too, not just 'iwconfig'? Also at boot the card does not attempt to pull an IP from the DHCP server. So I guess I just need to add the WPC11 as a second connection. I do not know how to do that. So I guess what I am looking for is a tutorial or how-to on making the wifi card the primary connection. gadfly

iwconfig just juggles the wireless settings, for the ethernet settings, just use normal old ifconfig... if you're running a promiscuous router (most of them), no WEP, iwconfig should show the essid of your access point, having associated right off the bat. For the IP, invoke your distro's dhcp client, for redhat:

dhclient eth0

for every other distro on the planet:

dhcpcd eth0

This is assuming eth0, probably eth1 if you have onboard ethernet.

Cheers,

Finegan

Originally posted by rmartine finegan... I think you already have it listed in your hermes.conf but you don't have the manfid line. If you already have this, I'm sorry Here is what I added to /etc/pcmcia/config card "Netgear MA401-RA" manfid 0x000b, 0x7300 bind "orinoco_cs" Hope I haven't wasted your time.

Same ident, same manfid, and now its in hermes.conf! So... if you upgrade to v.13 of the driver and you should, because its good for you, you won't even have to hack up /etc/pcmcia/config anymore, it'll just beep!

Cheers,

Finegan