[Techtalk] How do I get pcmcia wireless card to work

[Tania Morell]

Whoops... forgot to say I went ahead and installed this packed last
night despite what it said about 2.4 kernel not needing it.  Didn't
think it had worked cuz I'd forgotten to HUP cardmgr.   Now the wireless
card (eth1) is working fine!!   But still wondering what software do
people use to monitor the signal strength or even to identify which
network the wireless card will connect to if there's more than one.

Thanks,
-T


-----Original Message-----
From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org]
On Behalf Of Tania Morell
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:49 PM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: FW: [Techtalk] How do I get pcmcia wireless card to work

Thank you terri.   I downloaded this package yesterday and untarred it.
According to the README-2.4 file, the 2.4 kernel doesn't need the
package as long as the CONFIG_PCMCIA flag is enabled in the kernel.  

Well, I looked around in /boot and I see this flag in 'config' file.
(.. symlinked to 'config-2.4.18-6mdk' )  both have it set to 'm'.  I'm
guessing this means module so I'm also guessing I don't need this
package. Assuming my wireless card is ready to go, how do I configure
it?  Or access it?  I'm not even sure what the device name for it is.
I've never tried to configure one of these in cards in  linux before.
Thanks. 

-T


-----Original Message-----
From: Terri Oda [mailto:terri at ostraya.zone12.com] On Behalf Of Terri
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 2:38 PM
To: Tania Morell
Cc: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] How do I get pcmcia wireless card to work

> I bought a new laptop this week (myfirst) and installed mandrake 8.2
on
> it.  My netgear 401 wireless card is hot swappable so when I
unplug/plug
> it in, I get a couple messages from cardmgr on console listing the
> manufacturer and model of the card..  but when I cat
> /var/lib/pcmcia/stab. It says both pcmcia slots are 'empty'.    Man
page
> states that a low pitch sound means cardmgr failed to load the driver,
> so I'm assuming the low pitch sound means it has failed?   Can anyone
> give me a couple quick tips for getting networking running on this
> thing?  Or point me in the right direction to some online info?  I've
> been searching for a couple hours with no luck.  =)

Yup.  Low pitch means it didn't work. 

The usual thing:
* double check any logs for messages that'll give a clue as to what
precisely what wrong
* make sure that your card actually is in your pcmcia config file
(/etc/pcmcia/config on my machine).  If it isn't, add it.  The
manufacturer
may have the appropriate info on their website or you might just need to
update your pcmcia config file. (pcmcia-cs.sf.net for the latest)  

This info will look something like this:
card "Linksys Ethernet"
  version "Linksys", "Combo PCMCIA EthernetCard (EC2T)"
  bind "pcnet_cs"

* make sure that you've actually compiled the appropriate bits into your
kernel.  In my example case (a random Linksys card I pulled from my
config
file) the thing you'd need to have is "pcnet_cs".

pcmcia-cs.sf.net should have links to all the extra information you
might
need, but I haven't really looked at the site in a while so I won't
swear it
does. :)

Good luck!

 Terri

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