Wireless and Slackware

Alex_jacobson · 07-30-2003, 01:04 PM

Hi,

I wanted to know how do I install a wireless PCMCIA card on Slackware 9 ? I start my laptop and I insert my card and I hear the two beeps but my card will never connect to my wireless router...

Oh by the way my card is a Linksys WPC11 and I used the orinoco_cs.o driver on Red Hat before and it worked..

Thanks in advance,

Alex

chris09 · 07-30-2003, 01:49 PM

Stick the card in, then after the beeps:

cat /var/log/messages

Post the errors, if any.

Alex_jacobson · 07-30-2003, 02:25 PM

Ok.. It writes :

Jul 30 15:21:02 goofy cardmgr[61]: socket 0: linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN card

Jul 30 15:21:02 goofy kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean

Jul 30 15:21:02 goofy cardmgr[61]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'

Jul 30 15:21:02 goofy cardmgr[61]: './network start eth1'

Jul 30 15:21:02 goofy /etc/hotplug/net.agent: register event not handled

The last one troubles me a little bit...

akaBeaVis · 07-30-2003, 07:17 PM

Your card appears to ready to configure, the hotplug "register event not handled", error can safely be ignored. Take a look at these 2 files and remember you're configuring eth1, not eth0. They have commentary and examples throughout.

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts

oops, don't forget to check /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts also.

Alex_jacobson · 07-30-2003, 09:42 PM

Thanks ! the DHCP daemon was commented , I un-commented it and it worked =)