HI,

I've Compaq pressario 1500 laptop.
I've installed RH Linux 8 on it.
I'm using grub for dual boot ( multiboot) other OS being WINXP home

Once this problem is solved i want to phase out winxp ,
want use only Linux.

I want to access internet through wireless card.
I have "Linksys Instant wireless Network PC Card ver.3"
My system don't beep when i insert the card.
I guess linux is detecting my system.
out put of following commads :
>cardctl ident
Socket 0:
_ product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc", "Instant wireless Network PC Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
__ manfid: 0x0274, 0x1613
__ funcion: 6 (network)
>cardctl status
Socket 0:
__ 5V 16-bit PC Card
_ _function 0: [ready]
Please help me out

Thank you

RedHat 8 comes with a rather old /etc/pcmcia/config file that tells cardmgr what module to bind to what card. There are three sets of drivers that work with the WPC11 v3, but in order to get the kernel set, orinoco_cs to bind properly you'll have to use a sort of home cooked patch that the guys here have come up with.

Look here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=wpc11+patch

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanx Finegan.

Sorry about posting two times.

as you said i did, but copying didn't solve my problem.

may be i have messed up with prism2_cs .... i donno .

Now i have started afresh. Installed RH linux 8.0 ( every thing , around 4.5 GB in a 6 GB partion for linux. )

now i get a single beep when i insert my card.

output of dmesg ( only relevant part )

Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:06.0
Yenta IRQ list 0298, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.

last part of /var/log/messages file

Jan 5 09:55:35 dhcp145 cardmgr[719]: unsupported card in socket 0
Jan 5 09:55:36 dhcp145 cardmgr[719]: product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
Jan 5 09:55:36 dhcp145 cardmgr[719]: manfid: 0x0274, 0x1613 function: 6 (network)

output of following commands

[root@dhcp145 root]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
manfid: 0x0274, 0x1613
function: 6 (network)

[root@dhcp145 root]# cardctl config
Socket 0:
Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 5.0V Vpp2 5.0V

[root@dhcp145 root]# cardctl status
Socket 0:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]


i guess information above makes my problem more clear.

Please help now what to do to make my card work

Thank you

Did you patch /etc/pcmcia/config with the information from the above link?

Cheers,

Finegan

yes i did.

output of lsmod:

[root@dhcp145 pcmcia]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ds 8712 1
yenta_socket 12960 1
pcmcia_core 54784 0 [ds yenta_socket]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 1 (autoclean)
vfat 13084 1 (autoclean)
fat 38712 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
i810_audio 25224 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13384 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6532 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
radeon 93976 1
agpgart 43072 3
binfmt_misc 7524 1
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
eepro100 22264 1
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 14936 1 [iptable_filter]
microcode 4668 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394 20108 0 (unused)
ieee1394 46892 0 [ohci1394]
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
ehci-hcd 17480 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 21320 0 (unused)
usbcore 77024 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]


[root@dhcp145 pcmcia]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.


[root@dhcp145 pcmcia]# slocate orinoco
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless_old/orinoco_cs.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless_old/orinoco.c
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net/wireless_old/orinoco.h
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/modules/orinoco.stamp
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/modules/orinoco.ver
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless_old/orinoco_old_cs.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14debug/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14debug/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14debug/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14debug/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14debug/kernel/drivers/net/wireless_old/orinoco_old_cs.o

Yeah it never loaded the module and never bound the card, that's odd, are you certain you have this entry:

card "Instant Wireless Network PC Card"
manfid 0x0274,0x1613
bind "orinoco_cs"

in

/etc/pcmcia/config

Cheers,

Finegan

Thankyou so much finegan. now i think it is working.
what i have to do now ?

i just added that
and restarted pcmcia.
NOW it gives 2 beeps

[root@dhcp145 pcmcia]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:42.9497GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:-68 dBm Noise level:-122 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient eth0

That should grab a lease.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thank you so much Finegan.

It works. Thank you.

I took so much time to post this, cos i was configuring VPN client without which i couldn't access net ( only for wireless connections ) in school .

Finally.

Soon i'll be back with next problem. ciao