I spent hours and hours messing with my SMC card on SuSE 8.2, installing everything under the sun related to this topic, only to find this tid bit that worked immediately. gawd, I wish I found this site sooner....

Details:

All I did was add the lines mentioned in finegan's post below to '/etc/pcmcia/atmel.conf' and the following lines to my '/etc/pcmcia/config' file. I then restarted the pcmcia service.

card "SMC"
manfid 0x01bf, 0xb301
bind "prism2_cs"

**copied from another post***

You can't hand modprobe a pcmcia module, the cardmgr daemon has to bind it to the device... makes things a little hairy, the one biggie that you need to do is add this to /etc/pcmcia/atmel.conf:

device "pcmf502r"
class "network" module "pcmf502r"

card "SMC 2632W V2 11 Mbps Wireless PCMCIA Card"
manfid 0x01bf, 0xb301
bind "pcmf502r"

That should at least get it to try to bind the module, now if that module works... who knows if the patch hasn't been applied.

Cheers,

Finegan


I really hope this helps folks in getting their SMC cards up and going. I am certainly a happy camper now

Regards,

Nordicsan