Hi,

Im not a n00b really. But sometimes I feel like one when trying to get wireless working under Linux. MY BCM4301 internal PCI card is listed, but is getting no power. I bought an Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA card, because its supposed to work.

Rubbish! Im getting no power to my PCMCIA card, and on boot, the kernel (at init 3 when loading PCMCIA, no such error on /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) complains that it cant find a module (sorry, its a bit hard to copy-paste at init 3). So, i've scoured YaST, and attempted to add this card (it lists an unknown device in Network Devices, but i've had no luck).

So, I beg you, whoever may help, could you please help me out getting this working?

Computer Specification
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Laptop Manu.:Compaq Presario R3000
Processor: AMD64
RAM: 512MB
PCI: Ethernet (Broadcom 8139)
WiFi (BCM 4301, Broadcom)
PCMCIA: 1 Slot, with an Orinoco Classic Gold PC Card

Various Output (dmesg, lspci, lsmod et al)
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iwconfig output
I've found that the problem is that SuSE 9.2 is incorrectly identifying my card (Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA) as an "Anonymous Memory" card. So, i changed the modules it should load (from memory_cs [it doesnt exist], to orinoco, orinoco_cs, hermes, yenta_socket). I've also set my eth0 to 'Manual' in /etc/network/ifcofg-eth0... but it still seems to attempt to map to eth0 and not to the wireless card.

I also cannot get power to the PC card because of this...Any ideas?

Also, here's some updated dmesg output after messing with the modules (setting the "Anonymous Memory" sections bind line to load "orinoco" [or any of the aforementioned modules])

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I hope, that someone can help me with this, i've been trying so hard recently to get this working (as you can see), but I really cant jump this hurdle.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
I had a similar problem with my network card (no power) the problem for me was that the card was being allocated the wrong area of RAM. Try this site: http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/l...o/linux-pcmcia and send a email with your dmegs, /proc/ioports & /proc/iomem outputs and maybe they will be able to help.

Weaner

Thanks a lot for the reply. I've reinstalled SuSE, but in 23-bit mode (cant be arsed with 64-bit if I cant get on the net.) If i manage to get it installed, i'll probably reinstall with 64bit.

I got ndiswrapper installed and installed the .inf/.sys files (win drivers), I can modprobe it, but still no power

There is still no power with the 32 bit version? If so then have a look in your dmesg and see if there are many messages like this:
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:09.0 probing PCI interrupt failed, trying to fix
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:09.0 no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.
or:
'*** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
cs: pcmcia_socket0: unsupported voltage key.'

If so, then follow the instructions from the first post as your card is not getting any interrupts due to a memory problem (and no power too). This is what happened to me

Thanks. Any idea how you fixed it? Its still allocating the PC card as a Memory device, and i've changed the 'bind "memory_cs"' to 'bind "ndiswrapper"' (along with other modules.

Just seems a little long winded, and i've never used a mailing list before

It's really easy to fix, you just have to add a line to the kernel command line that allocates an area of ram for the card. However, because I have 1 gig of ram the solution I was given wouldn't be same for you, thats why I would ask the people at the pcmcia website for help, they know what they are doing where as.... I don't
Sorry it's not a real solution to your problem but it's the best I can do.

Weaner

FYI I posted on the mailing list. And they fixed it. Those guys are really helpful and quick too!

You were right, I need to change the memory allocation lines in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to that of my card details (found through lspci -vvv), once that was found, I edited /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and did /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart and I heard the lovely little beep that gave me an erection.

So, alls working. Thanks a lot for your help guys!