i can't get my intel pcmcia card to work with debian.
any advise?
operator

Old intel pcmcia card, not much of a description..

What exactly is it ? lspcmcia

is the driver module loaded for it ?

are the pcmciautils installed ?

are you actually still running Sarge on that machine ?

here is my hardware profile:
my laptop is an averatec 3225.
my card is: intel PRO/wireless 2011B lan PC card,
2.4Ghz,54 Mbps.

I dont know what packages to use or how to use them.

I am using etch newstable.

operator

From what I can gather that card uses the Symbol Chipset and requires proprietary firmware..
Symbol was bought out by Motorola and I can't find anything on Motorolas website about the proprietary firmware that is needed.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...s.802.11b.html
http://wwwrbg.in.tum.de/lan/wlan-linux.txt

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-2011b-138704/

Most of the links I'm finding for that card are OLD (2001-2004).. the drivers are old (if you can locate a link to download them), I don't even know if they would compile or work with the 2.6 kernel..

Might I suggest a shiny new 802.11G card with the ralink chipset ? takes all of about 2 minutes to setup in Debian, with a free driver and no firmware needed ? Asus WL-107g for $26.00

Another alternative would be to use the Windows driver for the card you have and ndiswrapper in Linux

I see in my searching, some of the Other Averatec 3225 laptops came with the ralink wireless cards..

somewhere on lq someone claimed to use motorola card without any wrapper. Thats what prompted me to buy the card. I am new to wireless networks. it came with windows drivers that dont work. The ms drivers work though, but the wpa will not connect. now I want to do it the debian way. I will try the spectrum pack. the one that I have was guaranteed to be compatable before shipping.