I have an SMC2635W wireless card in use in a Panasonic CF-37 notebook. I saw a thread here discussing how to obtain and compile the ADMtek driver for it. So far, so good.

My problem is that the WEP KEY value in rc.wireless.conf doesn't seem to be getting read out of rc.wireless.conf when rc.pcmcia is called to turn on the cardbus ports. If it do a '/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart' then immediately after, 'iwconfig eth0 key xxxx-xxxx-xx', that seems to get my card online. Otherwise, it doesn't work.

I have put in a couple entries in to rc.wireless.conf for a few different networks, and more than a few have WEP enabled. None of the configurations with WEP work when I do 'cardctl scheme <network>' and then '/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart' I have to manually enter in the key after I restart rc.pcmcia

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? TIA

Set you schemes with the key in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts

I just tried that now, copying rc.wireless.conf to /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts with still no luck. It's just not reading the KEY value, it seems. When I run iwconfig after I restart rc.pcmcia, and Encryption is always turned off. Is there something else that I'm missing?

as root you must select your scheme:

cardctl scheme NameOfScheme

By the way I don't know if just copying the file over is a good idea. The probably follow the same format but...

In the wireless.opts file there is a lot of info on setting up various schemes.

I was looking at the wireless.opts file and the rc.wireless.conf file, and for fun, I was checking out the rc.wireless.conf file on my linux server. It turns out, the base Slackware distribution does not support schemes, or so it seems.

Where wireless.opts parses four items (scheme,socket,interface,hwaddr), rc.wireless.confg only matches hwaddr. The big clue for me was the case statement in rc.wireless.conf (case "$HWADDR" in).

After I got rid of the three items before hwaddr, it worked like a charm. Thanks for the tips! Now, I'll have to figure out a way to switch between networks when I go from house to house (Gotta polish up those shell scripting abilities anyway...)

I already wrote some info on that:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=232645

Hey D0odman,

Here is what my rc.wireless.conf file looks like.... What "three items"before hwaddr are you talking about getting rid of?

UW PICO(tm) 4.9 File: rc.wireless.conf

# Extensions, so we will just call 'iwconfig' with the right parameters
# defined below.
# Of course, you need to have iwconfig installled on your system.
# To download iwconfig, or for more info on Wireless Extensions :
# http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...nux/Tools.html
#
# Note : you don't need to fill all parameters, leave them blank, in most
# cases the driver will initialise itself with sane defaults values or
# automatically figure out the value... And no drivers do support all
# possible settings...
#
# -- This is a modified '/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts' script --
#

VERBOSE=1

case "$HWADDR" in