Hi,
I'm having problem getting my wireless card (a Neatgear WAG511 PCMCIA card) working. I've been trying to use madwifi which is suposed to support the card by following this guid: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
When I load the module with modprobe ath_pci it does load but gives a warning (well some other warnings to about none gpl code, but I asume those can be ignored):
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device . Please try using pci=biosirq.
ath_pci: cannot reserve PCI memory region.
I've tried using the tip and doing modprobe ath_pci pci=biosirq but no difference. If I ignore this (it says it loads after all) and continue with the guide with wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta I get:
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device

I'm running etch but with 2.4.27-3-386 kernel (have to use that kernel for my old CAN card). Anyone has any ideas on what I might try?

Regards
Leon Ljunggren

Here's 2 ideas to look into, but no guarantees..
1 - I *believe* the "pci=biosirq" argument is one that you would use during boot, from the boot prompt, OR you could append it into LILO or GRUB (whichever bootloader you use)
2 - I haven't actually reasearched your card, but is there perhaps any indication anywhere about the wireless device requiring external firmware along with the driver module? Seems many wireless cards do require firmware (it's like an extra piece of software from the makers of the card)..

If you boot from GRUB, press 'e' on the kernel you are booting, and add the 'pci=' thingy from above, and see if that helps.
If using LILO, check the man page for LILO (type 'man lilo' in a console) for exact instructions on adding the 'append=pci=biosirq' to the /etc/lilo.conf file, then run lilo in the console as root (make sure you get no errors) and reboot and try again.

Thanks for your help.
You're right about pci=biosirq, it's suposed to be a kernel argument. Unforsulently it didin't help.
However I managed to get it working by changening pcmcia-moules with kernel-pcmcia-modules and then in the file /etc/default/pcmcia set PCIC="yenta_socket". Like magic it suddenly works.