Hello i need some help for my new PCMCIA wireless card from SMC 2635W. Inside the card the chip is from ADMtek: ADM8211.
I compiled my kernel last week :2.4.21 .Every is fine while i compil by myself the Wireless_tools_25 (with Wireless_extention 15) AND the module for the card , i get my 8211.o, insmod succed in loading the module.
however depmod tell me that i have unresolved link in my module 8211.o and iwconfig doesn't work: i can't set iwconfig setting, all values like ESSID or CHANNEL keep their default value....

I think that all my issues comes from the missing link of my module......
Does someone have any idea???

just another fact: kwifimanager tell me that i have compiled my module with wireless_extension 15 but i am using verzion 14 of wireless_extension.
thanks for any help

Greetings, I saw your other post, but thought this would be the best place to get back to you.

I get the unresolved symbols also with the 8211 module, yet it works for me both in slack 9 and mandrake 9. I haven't had to anything weird with the cardbus card on mandrake, with the pci card on slackware, I ended up using these commands:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.6 (use your eth device name in place of eth0 and a valid address for your network, use this line even if you plan to use dhcp, the address will be short-lived in that case)
iwconfig eth0 mode managed rate 11M
sleep 2
iwconfig eth0 channel 8
sleep 2
iwconfig eth0 key xxxx-xxxx-xx
sleep 2
iwconfig eth0 essid myessidname
route add default gw 192.168.2.1 eth0 (use you access point's ip address, or if you're using dhcp, skip this line)
#if using dhcp:
dhclient eth0

You can leave out the "sleep " lines if you're just typing this in at the command line, put them in if you're creating a script. it seems the pci card is slow to process iwconfig directives, and the order seems to also make a difference, the above works for me, see if it helps.

Hello,

First of all , thank you for your help...
I have compiled my kernel

I am suspecting my modules not to work properly.... with the other module like tell me lsmod
Module used by
pcmcia_core ! 0 ! [ds yenta socket]
yenta_socket 2
ds 2
8211 1

I heard of an module.autoload.... do you know where i can find it on my mandrake distrib???

I think that i have well configured my network setting.... ip, mask, etc... but i heard that autoloadis important??? and should be OFF???

thank for any help

rom

That lsmod looks ok, very similar to mine.