I am running Fedora Core 1 with kernel version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
and am trying to get an SMC 2532W-B wireless card to work.

I have successfully installed the HostAP driver.

When I do lsmod, I see hostap listed, but it says "(unused)".

I have tried rebooting the machine with the card inserted and
the card is not recognized at all. The LEDs on the card don't
blink at all.

I have also tried rebooting the machine without the card inserted
and then inserting the card and still nothing happens.

When I try to do cardctl ident, I get the error:

no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

When I look at /var/log/messages, there is nothing in it about the
wireless card. Just unrelated stuff.

I have also tried /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart and I got the error:

Shutting down PCMCIA services:.
Starting PCMCIA services: modulesmodprobe: Can't locate module pcmcia_core.o
modprobe: Can't locate module yenta_socket.o
modprobe: Can't locate module ds.o
cardmgr.

When I do ifconfig, I only get the "lo" stuff and no "eth0" or "wlan0"
or anything like that.

My card is just not being recognized. Before I installed the HostAP
driver and did cardctl ident, the card was recognized. The card works
fine under Windows.

I am a Linux newbie. Could somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you.

As a clarification to my request, I should add that I have downloaded the correct version
of pcmcia-cs-* for my system.

But cardctl ident says "no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices"
and doing service pcmcia restart just tells me that pcmcia_core.o, yenta_socket.o and ds.o
can't be found. The pcmcia-cs seems to compile fine but I can't figure out where the
correspondng object files are.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Hi,
Try to change these lines of the /etc/init.d/pcmcia script

if [ -d $PC ] ; then
echo -n " modules"
/sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core.o $CORE_OPTS
/sbin/modprobe $PCIC.o $PCIC_OPTS
/sbin/modprobe ds.o

with
if [ -d $PC ] ; then
echo -n " modules"
/sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core $CORE_OPTS
/sbin/modprobe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS
/sbin/modprobe ds


modprobe does not accept .o extension but want only the module's name.
With the default kernel installation, this is not a problem because the test is false.

I had the same problem with pcmcia wireless card and hostap module