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will list what modules you have loaded. iwconfig doesn't give a reading until you have brought up the wireless card AND given it an ipaddress unless you implictly define the eth device:
iwconfig eth0
But that's probably your built in ethernet if you have it, if not that might just very well be the wireless card.
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Finegan, this must be the 999th guy you're walking through( I know cuz I'm one). I wonder what the source of your never-ending inspiration is!! Whatever it is, I admire it. Rock on, dude.
yes, eth0 is my built in ethernet
and when i do a lsmod from the sbin dir, it just comes up with module size used by not tainted, but nothing following underneath those, and no listing...
if indeded it is there and installed whatnot, how would i bring it up, and configure it? but i dont see how i would bring it up if its not showing on my ethernet devices, but my pcmcia socket shows its ther...im still lost LOL
Ah, whoops, I lost track of the replies from this thread for nearly a week... that's never happened before, sorry dude.
Okay, it seems you have built EVERYTHING into your new kernel, nothing as loadable modules... this is going to be weird.
With the card in, what is the output of:
ifconfig -a
That'll list everything that is a valid ethernet device, hopefully you'll have 3 entries, one for the loopback device, lo, one for the onboard ethernet, eth0 and one for the wireless card, eth1. If you have an eth1:
ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 up (BS ip address for now)
iwconfig eth1 essid nameofsomenetwork
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
iwconfig
The last command should show you whether you've got anything going on... if you do, rockin.
If you have no modules in lsmod, no eth0 device, you've compiled all the pcmcia support into the kernel, and cardmgr doesn't know how to bind anything in there so...
re-compile the kernel, or, if you still have it, use the stock 2.4.18 and modules that shipped with RH 7.3. Its really just a matter of d/l a patch from here called hermes.conf, sticking it in /etc/pcmcia so that cardmgr reads it on a card stab and it'll bind the kernel module orinoco_cs to your card, and then things should work.
D-link has the tendancy to add a single character onto the existing product number of a supported chipset, but that single character denotes an entirely different chipset. This is annoying as hell.
The following are Linux supported devices produced by D-Link and their chipsets:
DWL-520, Prism 2 or maybe a 2.5 chipset, I think they may have switched up chipsets without rev-ing the product number.
(covered by the linux-wlan project, the host_ap project, and the orinoco drivers)
DWL-650, ditto from above.
Possibly:
The DWL-650H, I think is the Prism3 flavor of the 650... but there's no literature, PDF, info page or whatever on Dlink's site to let me know either way. If so, it could probably be covered by all 3 of the above projects with a little hand hacking.
NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED:
DWL-650+
DWL-520+
(These are both Texas Instruments chipsets that rely on software to boost speed to a minute and only bursting 22M/bit rate. TI is very cagey about releasing specs, and with no info, there is very little likely possibility of support from Linux Driver developers... its hard to support something by peek and poke at values... look at current NTFS support for an idea of the monolithic aspect of the task.)
DWL-A520
DWL-A650
(These are both 802.11a cards, run in the 5Ghz range, and are not at all compatible in any way with an 802.11b router. There is support for their chipset, which I think is an Agere offhand, but the only driver is in an alpha stage and DOES NOT WORK yet.)
All of this can be gleaned from a careful reading of Jean's page .
Also, if you doubt that the DWL-520+ is a TI chipset, you can check with a simple: "/sbin/lspci"
Sorry for the bad news. I plastered the whole thing up there mostly so if anyone else searches they'll know to hold off. When the Prism cards hit the market, I was right there and got them to work with the beta drivers and hated it, and juggled gear and finally got together orinoco kit. Now a lot of people are going to buy obnoxious TI kit and be stuffed for support.
Hi i'm new in this forum, and i'm a begginer in linux.
Here is my problem: i have a wireless pci card WMP11, and i don't know how to doit to work.
I want to set her to work as AP client.....i have install "hostap" and "wireless tools".......next i don't know what to do.
i try iwconfig .....no error
ifconfig eth0 ----- show me the ip........
ifconfig wlan0 ----- device not found
iwconfig eth0 ----- no wireless extension
iwconfig eth1 ----- no such device
iwconfig wlan0 ----- no such device
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