I am running SuSE 9.1 Professional on a Compaq Presario R3000. I'm trying to get my WPC11 ver 3.0 card to work.

I downloaded the Linux driver from Linksys' web site. When I ran the 'make config' utility I got the following errors:

I'm completely new to linux and trying to learn this whole environment. SuSE support was little if no help.

What am I doing wrong, what is not setup correctly?


-------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script -------------

The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]: y

Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: n

Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]: n

Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: n

Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]:

./Configure: line 1: CONFIG_RELEASE: command not found
./Configure: line 1: CONFIG_CFGNAME: command not found
./Configure: line 1: shellecho-: command not found
The kernel source tree is version 2.6.4-.
WARNING: the current kernel is actually version 2.6.4-54.5-default.
The current kernel build date is Fri May 7 16:47:49 2004.

pcmcia-cs source dir [/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.2.7]:
pcmcia-cs source tree /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.2.7 is incomplete or missing!
The wlan driver for pcmcia cannot be built without

Configuration failed

make: *** [config] Error 1
linux:/home/laughner/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14-pre1 #

Here is some more info. It does not appear that the card is indentifying itself eithier...

cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available

cardctl status
Socket 0:
3.3V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]
Socket 1:
no card


tail /var/log/messages
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[8931]: try 1 while waiting for /b lock/sda's bus_id 1:0:0:0
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux kernel: sda: sda1
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3
Jun 1 15:07:10 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[8953]: new block device /block/sd a/sda1
Jun 1 15:07:11 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[8931]: new block device /block/sd a
Jun 1 15:09:27 linux kernel: cs: unable to map card memory!
linux:/home/laughner/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14-pre1 #

From what I've discovered, the problem is with the TI cardbus.
Have you found a solution yet?

Unfortunately I have not resolved this yet.

I am not sure if this is helpful but I have a Linksys WPC11 PCMCIA card working in Mandrake Linux 10.0. The system recognized the card as Tekram AIR.Mate PCF 200 Wireless LAN card and used the orinoco-cs module to run it.

Laughner,
I am having the same problem as you had. I see that you finally got your Linksys card working. How did you get past the usr/scr/linux (source code dir) problem when running ./Configure? Any help would be appreciated.