Hello,

Can someone please help me with getting to work my wireless pcmcia card from Sweex (ATMEL PCMCIA FastVNET (502A-D)) in Mandrake (9.1). I'm trying this for months now, but I can't get it to word, probably because I'm new at Linux. I hope that someone reading this forum can help me through the installation en getting it to work... Thanx!

Marcel
marcel@mamidilu.nl

Since you've been trying to get this working for a while now, we need to know what you've done, and how far you are in the process, if you've just done a clean install, disregard.

Hi there,

I did a lot of things with all kind of wireless tools and information from http://sourceforge.net/ and http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ etc. But I have probably done so much that it's more worse than better... ;-) Therefor I've recently did a new and fresh installation of Mandrake 9.1. So I can start all over again, I hope with some help of you guys....

Marcel

Great, we'll start fresh. First, some info from your system: as root, with the card in the machine, open a terminal/console window, type these and post the output:

cardctl status
cardctl ident
lsmod
cat /etc/modules.conf
ifconfig -a
iwconfig

that should get us started...

Oké thanx for helping! Here is my output:

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

cardctl ident
[root@Dell root]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "ATMEL", "AT76C502AR_D"
manfid: 0x0000, 0x0000
function: 6 (network)

lsmod
[root@Dell root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
radeon 107428 14
agpgart 40896 3 (autoclean)
i810_audio 26248 1
soundcore 6276 0 [i810_audio]
ac97_codec 12488 0 [i810_audio]
nfsd 74256 8 (autoclean)
ds 8456 2
yenta_socket 13056 2
pcmcia_core 57184 0 [ds yenta_socket]
af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean)
floppy 55132 0
3c59x 29584 1 (autoclean)
ohci1394 19048 0 (unused)
ieee1394 45900 0 [ohci1394]
nls_iso8859-15 4092 4 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
ntfs 76812 4 (autoclean)
supermount 15296 2 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33856 0
cdrom 31648 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11280 0
scsi_mod 103284 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 175120 1

cat /etc/modules.conf
[root@Dell root]# cat /etc/modules.conf

probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 3c59x
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394

ifconfig -a
[root@Dell root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:E6:13:5F
inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:612 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:310882 (303.5 Kb) TX bytes:91059 (88.9 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10190 (9.9 Kb) TX bytes:10190 (9.9 Kb)

iwconfig
[root@Dell root]# iwconfig
-bash: iwconfig: command not found

That last "command not found" for iwconfig needs to be corrected, open Mandrake Control Center, then Install Software and search "in descriptions" for wireless-tools, or search "in files" for iwconfig, install the rpm, then do cardctl ident again, we need real numbers there instead of "0x0000", if both "manfids" returned from cardctl ident are "0x0000", it's going to be tough for cardmgr to ID the card and load it's associated module(driver).

Hi there,

After installing the wireless-tools I did the "cardctl ident" again:

[root@Dell root]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "ATMEL", "AT76C502AR_D"
manfid: 0x0000, 0x0000
function: 6 (network)

I still have the "0x0000" twice...

I do have "iwconfig" now:

[root@Dell root]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Mvg,
Marcel

Let's try and go on without those manfid's.

Mandake 9.1 now includes modules for that card, yet they are not listed in the config tool you can run for your network card from the mandrake control center...so open a terminal and type /sbin/modprobe pcmf502_revd, hopefully no error will be returned and when you type lsmod afterwards you should see pcmf502_revd in the list somewhere. Then, do ifconfig -a, 3 devices should now be displayed, "lo", "eth0" and whatever name was chosen for your atmel card, something like "wlan0" or "eth1". Then do iwconfig and the wireless device should show up. When you get that far post back.

I think it is not working, I've posted the results:

[root@Dell root]# /sbin/modprobe pcmf502_revd

[root@Dell root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
pcmf502_revd 67456 0 (unused)
radeon 107428 14
agpgart 40896 3 (autoclean)
i810_audio 26248 0
soundcore 6276 0 [i810_audio]
ac97_codec 12488 0 [i810_audio]
nfsd 74256 8 (autoclean)
ds 8456 2 [pcmf502_revd]
yenta_socket 13056 2
pcmcia_core 57184 0 [pcmf502_revd ds yenta_socket]
af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean)
floppy 55132 0
3c59x 29584 1 (autoclean)
ohci1394 19048 0 (unused)
ieee1394 45900 0 [ohci1394]
nls_iso8859-15 4092 4 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
ntfs 76812 4 (autoclean)
supermount 15296 2 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33856 0
cdrom 31648 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11280 0
scsi_mod 103284 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 175120 1

[root@Dell root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:E6:13:5F
inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:115905 (113.1 Kb) TX bytes:34413 (33.6 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9488 (9.2 Kb) TX bytes:9488 (9.2 Kb)

I don't see any "wlan0" or "eth1"...

So also the “iwconfig” didn't have any effect.
[root@Dell root]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Mvg,
Marcel

Let's try to see what happened, open /var/log/messages in kate, or kedit, or gedit, go to the very end of the file and begin to scroll upwards, looking for messages logged near the place where the module was inserted, also look furthur up for errors related to pcmcia, noting especially any "no known interrupt..." errors.

Please, do *not* post the entire file, just the lines that might be relevant to the belkin card.

You wrote "Please, do *not* post the entire file, just the lines that might be relevant to the belkin card."...

But my problems are with an ATMEL card instead of an BELKIN card... but the coinsidence will that I've bought an BELKIN card this week. Will this one work easier than the ATMEL card?!

Grotjes,
Marcel

Sorry, my atmel card *is* a belkin card, yours may be also, what is the model number?