Wireless PCMCIA card install help

mechanek · 04-16-2003, 02:15 PM

Hey folks,
It's been awhile since I've posted....Hell, it's been almost a year!

I have just recently dove back into the linux community and need some advise on getting my Linksys(I know problem number one) wireless PCMCIA card model WPC11 working on a Toshiba 4030 CDT running RedHat 8 default kernel.

I have installed and successfully configured a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 intergrated CardBus PC card for connecting via Cat5 when I'm downstrairs, but I cannot get the wireless card setup.

I have installed the pcmcia-cs pakage 3.2.4 and linux-wlan-ng 0.1.14pre1.
I have aliased eth0 with orinoco-cs.
When I use the network configuration from gnome, it recognizes an orinoco/Prism II based card, but no matter the configuration I set the card will not initilize.

Any suggestions?

Thanks and I'll listen off the air

mechanek · 04-16-2003, 06:10 PM

New info.
Just installed version 0.2 of wlan-ng.
The modules are registering ok.
The info on final configuration states that the wlan-ng.opts file in /etc/pcmcia needs to be edited, but its not there.
the only wlan files are wlan-ng and wlan-ng.config.

cclavey · 04-16-2003, 06:16 PM

Hmmm...
I don't know much about RH 8 kernel, but is it 2.4.2x? When I used that kernel my card was recognised automatically. Try modprobe orinoco, orinoco_cs, and hermes, and cardmgr, as root

Smerk · 05-11-2003, 08:00 AM

I don't know if you have solved your problems yet but have you been here yet?
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
assuming it is an orinoco card, then I think you will need hermes etc as suggested by cclavey.
these can be found here:
http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/