Hello once again,
well i tried 2 install my new smc2632w-ca pc card on ibm tp 390 w/Mandrake 9.1 running. I installed the 3 wlan drivers as found here http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/ using the i586 versions. originally i used the i686 version because message splash on bootup stating i586 for bamboo installed and then the next line would say something to the effect that i686 for tty1 was also being used. I assume i am right in using the i586 drivers? when i use mandrake Control Center i see nothing for a wireless ethernet card. The original Linksys wired ethernet card worked fine in the pcmia slot. Have i missed something? I did the research and found this card is suppose to have the prism II chipset and these drivers should work like a charm. But alas linux has humbled this newbie once more. Have I missed something else? I get green power light on card and it beeps twice when removed and reinserted but still it doesnt show in MCC. I made a printout of dmesg if that helps:

dmesg
Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000009ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000009ff0000 - 0000000009fffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000009fffc00 - 000000000a000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffea000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
159MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 40944
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 36848 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f71a0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 01540.00000) @ 0x09ffa98f
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM 430TX 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffb65
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffbd9
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM ThinkPad 01540.00000) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
ACPI: MADT not present
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount pci=biosirq acpi=on
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Could not enable APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 233.293 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS
Memory: 158524k/163776k available (1410k kernel code, 4864k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda05, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 9)
schedule_task(): keventd has not started
ACPI: Power Resource [PFAN] (off)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfd000000, mapped to 0xca80b000, size 2496k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a730
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: FUJITSU MHK2060AT, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: SANYO CRD-S372B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 11733120 sectors (6007 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=730/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 107k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent)
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (off)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (48 C)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading Kernel Card Services
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Splash status on console 0 changed to off
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
[eroica@localhost eroica]$ iwlist
bash: iwlist: command not found
[eroica@localhost eroica]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost eroica]# iwconfig
bash: iwconfig: command not found
as u can see also i was book and it suggested using the iwconfig command
but that doesnt exist on my machine.
Any and all help will be most appreciated...

alan

Log in as a full root user and verify that the wireless-tools RPM is installed. Next, check that the files in /etc/pcmcia are correctly configured to access your driver when the card is inserted.l Once you think that's done, insert the card and post any additional messages that may appear in dmesg.

forgive my ignorance but u are dealing w/a newbie who is used to windows environment. How would I 1:verify that the wireless RPM tools are installed and 2:what should properly configured etc/pcmia files look like. Sorry for being so ignorant but you gotta crawl b4 u can walk.

thanx,
alan

1. rpm -q wireless-tools will tell you if the package is installed correctly.

2. A properly configured pcmcia config file would have an entry like this:

card "SMC2632W-CA 802.11 Wireless Ethernet"
version "SMC", "2632W-CA"
bind "orinoco_cs"

If the card is a true Prism II device, then the orinoco_cs driver is the one that you should try. It's part of the kernel source, and if you're still using a vendor kernel then it should be present.

well at this point i'm ready to throw out everything. i talked to SMC support it turns out i have version 2 of the 2632w wifi card and it uses the atmel chip set. i removed the wlan drivers and installed drivers that they e-mailed to me. alas still no card in mandrake center shows up. Now i get an error message on the bootup splash screen when pcmcia service is loading and it says "cardmgr (some#):unsupported card in socket 0." So i try to install latest pcmcia-cs-3.2.7 package and of course I cant. first question on make install is where is my kernel source and uses default /usr/src/linux. When i choose that it says it not there. i do a search for any directory w/linux in it and try several and none of them are right either. What do i have to do to get this pcmcia-cs package installed???? Could somebody please give a clear and concise method for finding out where or even if i have my kernel source on my set-up. What is the kernel source anyway? And 2nd explain in newbie terms if i dont have kernel source what are the steps to get thesource? are they on distro disc's,do i have to go on net 2 get them etc? And once i have source what do i do w/it so maybe i can compile pcmcia_cs. I also was able to install wireless tools and nothing comes up. the pcmcia/config file along w/several other files i updated per SMC web site : http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=...AQ&note_id=420
and only difference is bind "wvlan_cs". here's the output of dmesg again if helpful:
[root@localhost eroica]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000009ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000009ff0000 - 0000000009fffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000009fffc00 - 000000000a000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffea000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
159MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 40944
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 36848 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f71a0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 01540.00000) @ 0x09ffa98f
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM 430TX 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffb65
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 01540.00000) @ 0x09fffbd9
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM ThinkPad 01540.00000) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
ACPI: MADT not present
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount pci=biosirq acpi=on
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Could not enable APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 233.292 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS
Memory: 158524k/163776k available (1410k kernel code, 4864k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda05, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 9)
schedule_task(): keventd has not started
ACPI: Power Resource [PFAN] (off)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfd000000, mapped to 0xca80b000, size 2496k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a730
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: FUJITSU MHK2060AT, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: SANYO CRD-S372B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 11733120 sectors (6007 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=730/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 107k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent)
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (off)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (29 C)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Splash status on console 0 changed to off
[root@localhost eroica]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost eroica]#
thanx again for your time and hopefully one day i can enjot wifi
alan