hi all
i have an " intel pro/wireless 2011 lan pc card " PCMCIA and i would like to use it with Linux RedHat8.0

the OS didn't detect the card and i tryed searching in this forum but didn't find any thing about the card

any suggestions please?
thanks in advance

If this is a true Intel PRO/wireless 2011, it should have bound the orinoco module, with the command:

/sbin/cardctl ident

Do you get something like this:

card "Intel PRO/Wireless 2011"
manfid 0x0089,0x0001

Cheers,

Finegan

this is what i get:

[root@localhost root]# /sbin/cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "Intel", "PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card", "1.00"
manfid: 0x0089, 0x0001
function: 6 (network)
[root@localhost root]#




but what does that mean?

thanks

Sorry about the lag in reply, still recovering from new years... aight, uh, that means the file entry that cardmgr reads for orinoco_cs binding should match what the card is. First off, when your laptop boots, or you insert the card or whatever, does the machine make two high pitched beeps, or a beep and a bonk, sounds silly I know, but that's the important part.

Cheers,

Finegan

hi .. sorry for being late

well .. i've just inserted the card and it made a ( taat ) sound .. and the light is not blinking .. no lights at all .. well .. i makes a (teet) sound in windows when i insert it got it?

thanks

Its not loading the driver for some reason. I would have thought RH8.0 would have had the proper config entry in /etc/pcmcia/config. If you download the file:

http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/hermes.conf

and put it in /etc/pcmcia, and then restart pcmcia with /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

Hopefully that will load the driver. If that horks, what's the last 20 lines or so from "dmesg"

Cheers,

Finegan

[root@localhost murshed]# cp hermes.conf /etc/pcmcia/
[root@localhost murshed]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart
Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgr modules.
Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr.
[root@localhost murshed]# ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found
[root@localhost murshed]# su -
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:0F:34:87
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:948 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:110 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:450000 (439.4 Kb) TX bytes:143273 (139.9 Kb)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xcc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13088 (12.7 Kb) TX bytes:13088 (12.7 Kb)






seems its working .. well i don't have the wireless network at home and the wlan card is blinking .. i think it is working
i would check it out tomorrow at college ..

but the question is how to set a static ip for it? or how to inable the dhcp client for it?

thanks

static:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.111 up

dynamic:

dhclient eth0

Also, remember you'll probably have to set the wireless settings for encryption if connecting to something run by a school:

iwconfig eth0 enc keyhere

Check out the man page on iwconfig for the different wireless goop you may have to set, the network name being the other biggie: essid as its called.

Cheers,

Finegan