i've looked around and tried variouse things and hve not been able to get it to work no matter what i do. The most I have accomplished pretty much is that my wireless card is reconized and I see the lights come on on the card.

I can type cardctl ident and will see it.

After doing a bunch of things, I mannaged to end up getting the following when I run /etc/rc.d/rc.wlan start

Startign WLAN Devices: Error: Device wlan0 does not seem to be present.
Make sure you've inserted the appropirate
modules or that your modules.conf file contains
the appropriate aliase(s)

So, I added "alias wlan0 p80211" to my /etc/modules.conf file and got the same error. I'm sort of stuck.

I'm using the latest version of Slackware.

Other info:
the only file in /lib/modules/2.4.31/linux-wlan-ng is p80211.o ...though...in /lib/modules/2.4.31/net there is p80211.o and 8390.o

Thanks in advanced.

EDIT:
Thought i would add the output of cardctl ident

Socket 0:
no product info aviable
Socket 1:
Product info: "The Linksys Group, Inkc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
Manfid: 0x0274, 0x1613
Function: 6 (network)

Well...i found out that i did something realy stupid. Since i was having problems compiling linux-wlan from source, i went and got a hold of the slackware package...but...I grabed one that wasent' for the kernel i was using. I went ahead and uninstalled that and installed the correct one and I now have all the missing files that I should have had before in /lib/modules/2.4.31/ . However, even though I did that, it's still not working. If i do nothing extra..i just get the wlan0 device dosent' exist, or if I add an alias for wlan0 (i tried a couple things with that) I just get a ton of unresolved symbol errors and a this device dosen't exist message (i can post the details of this soon). Now i'm stuck again :S lol.

EDIT: Here's the output of the errors of runing ./rc.wlan start

Unless there is some feature of the wlan_ng package that you need, I'd use the orinoco_cs driver instead. I've used it with a WPC11 v3 with no problems.

This it the entry in my /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf file:
card "Linksys WPC11 Version 3"
manfid 0x0274,0x1613
bind "orinoco_cs"

well...i tried creating that file you mentioned above with the what you said in it...no luck. I also went ahead and typed insmod orinoco_cs and got a bunch of unresolved symbol messages, similar to those of what I got from linux-wlan

Here's just a couple of lines of what i got...

Using /lib/modules/2.4.31/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o
/lib/modules/2.4.31/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: /lib/modules/2.4.31/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o : unresolved symbol hermes_struct_init
/lib/modules/2.4.31/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: /lib/modules/2.4.31/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol alloc_orinocodev

There are a few others..i can post the rest if need be.

Anyways...some other day I guess i'll try recompiling the kernel again, trying out a few differnt things. I'm hoping i can eventually get this to work.

EDIT: I just noticed, that now if i type ifconfig i get
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: 8 errors:0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 Frame: 0
TX packets: 8 errors:0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0
RX bytes: 600 (600.0 b) TX bytes: 600 (600.0 b)

Seems a little strange that that just suddenly appeared...

EDIT2:

Well, if i type modprobe orinico_cs , i get the following added to when i type lsmod
orinoco_cs 4436 0 (unused)
orinoco 33720 0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes 6048 0 [orinoco cs orinoco]
ds 7060 2 [orinoco_cs]
---------------
The other stuff i see is
i82365 38288 2
pcmcia_core 35008 0 [orinoco_cs ds i82365]

It woudl also be good to note that i removed linux-wlan . You know..i'm not sure if this is the best forum for this thread anymore :S oh well.

Well...I found this tutorial at http://linux.oldcrank.com/tips/wpc11/ and followed the instructions excactly. According to that tutorial everyting shoudl be working, since everything appears to be fine..but..if i restart the PCMCIA services...I get the high beep and then the low beep, not the two high beeps. I'm realy running out of ideas. From what i can see, everything is correct. Maybe my hermes.conf file isen't being read? Hopefully this can be figured out :S

Oh, maybe something worth mentioning..but..if i reboot and type lsmod...i dont get all the orinico stuff...i have to type modprobe orinoco_cs orinoco hermes before they show up. But if i restart PCMCIA services after doign that, it still dosen't work. Also, just to make sure, i tried plugging the card into a differnt slot. I should also note that this card was working when I had windows on the laptop orignally. ;-)

EDIT: On http://linux.oldcrank.com/tips/wpc11/ i was just using the part 1 instructions.

Hmm.

Well, you're still in the right forum. Wireless Networking would also work, but I think some of us span both. Not sure what's happening, though.

Removing wlan_ng was a good thing. I also think you're right that the hermes.conf file is not being read. Not sure why.

Modprobe orinoco_cs seems to be working, looking at your lsmod output. After the modprobe, try to bring up the adapter (assuming eth0) - ifconfig eth0 up. Then, see what iwconfig shows.

Well, in my /etc/modules.conf file I have the following in it .

alias wlan0 orinoco_cs

So, I typed ifconfig wlan0 up

I just ended up getting, " wlan0: unknown interface: No such device" ...I also tried ifconfig eth0 up just for kicks and got the same results.

Here is excactly what i have in my /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf file at the momment.

The permissions seem to be fine...anything should be able to read the file.

I also tried restarting the pcmcia services a couple times and redoing what you said...no luck. I did notice one strange detail though...even though i have that laias to orinoco_cs in my modules.conf file ...if i type ifconfig orinoco_cs directly, i get somethign a little differnt...the following:

orinoco_cs: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Now, looking over to /var/log/messages i noticed something that linux-wlan may have messed up...i don't know how to go about fixing this. I have left out the date and name of my computer due to my laziness of typign it :-P However, they all occured at the same time.

I thinkt he above is proving that for some reason, the /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf file isen't being read. Also, I made sure to check cardctl ident to make sure the manfid numbers matched what was in /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf

I'm completeley stumped :S Though, thsi being the first time that i have ever done anything wireless in linux dosen't help.

That same info is also contained in etc/pcmcia/config. Maybe try editing that file - comment out any reference to the Bromax card (the OEM for Linksys) and add the manfid and driver binding info. I thought the hermes config would be read first, but maybe not.

Well, that did the trick (sort of..i did it a little differnt).

First, I took a look at /etc/pcmcia/config and at the top it recomended to add thigns to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts . So, I added what was in hermes.conf to config.opts and everything worked. All I had to do was add dhcpcd wlan0 to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and everythign worked properly at start up

Anyways, thanks so much...don't know what iw ould have done without your advice lol. Though..it is realy weird hermes.conf isen't being read. Also, I should note, i dident' take your advice to comment out the Bromax stuff lik,e you said, and it still worked.

Glad it worked. Since I'd never had the exact symptoms, I wasn't able to be very specific on a couple of points. A certain amount of ad lib on your part was required. You did it well.