I'm trying to get wireless figured out for the book (and for me). I have downloaded wireless-tools, sysfsutils, and pcmciautls and installed them. Here are some of the issues I've solved:
wireless-tools needs a patch to compile with gcc-4. I was able to make the required changes and fixed the warnings while I was at it. I downloaded and installed a 2.6.16 kernel and compiled in yenta support and the specific card into the kernel. I also thought it would be a good idea to do pcmciautils which, it turns out, has sysfsutils, as a required dependency. In any case all are compiled. When I did pcmciautls, it wanted to do something different for hotplug and udev. I set it up for hotplug since my base system on the laptop is a standard lfs SVN-20051217. My problem is that I can't seem to get things connected. The hardware is recognized. dmesg shows: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1 Partial output from lspci gives: 02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) However, nothing is seen in /proc/net/wireless. Upon rebooting, dmesg has: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 2 cs: memory probe 0xf4000000-0xfbffffff: excluding 0xf4000000-0xf8ffffff 0xfa000000-0x fbffffff pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia2.0 hotplug is finding MODALIAS=pcmcia:m0156c0002f06fn00pfn00paD726CF79pbCE1172FBpcD27DEB1Apd00000000 ACTION=add But returning FATAL: Module pcmcia:m0156c0002f06fn00pfn00paD726CF79pbCE1172FBpcD27DEB1Apd00000000 not found. Usage: pcmcia-check-broken-cis [-r|--repair] <socketname> ============== I rebooted the system with a knoppix DVD and now I find out that there is a built in wireless card also. knoppix recognizes both cards. Does anyone have any thoughts about how to get wireless working in LFS? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
