I posted it to the "wrong" group, I hope I will be luckier here :/
zeDek On 6 Jan 2004, Xavier Maillard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mused: > Hi, > > I have asked everywhere I could about that. Nobody until now could > find a solution. So I am trying as a last resort here ;) > > Here I have an ACER TM803 laptop running perfectly except one thing: > PCMCIA. > > This is not that important but I prefer to be free and get rid of my > wired ethernet connection when at home. > > I use a Debian SID GNU/Linux with a vanilla 2.6.0 kernel. All has been > done accordingly to advice I receive here and there. It has support > for PCMCIA devices, Wireless and orinoco support. So I am using a > wireless driver from the kernel since it worked pretty well under > 2.4.x for me. > > I also have the wireless tools suite installed and all is done in the > interface files (ie /etc/network/interface). > > The Wireless card is Linksys WPC11 running in managed mode. > > I think my setup is good since it is the one that used to run under > the 2.4.x kernel series. > > Problem is that when inserting the card, first I don't ear any 'bip' > sound as it used to do. Then the card is no longer able to connect to > the AP (also by linksys). > > I remember that not that far ago, it worked but as I faced problem > keeping the connection up, I gave up and went back at my fidèle wire > :) > > Now it just doesn't want to connect. > > Have anyone any clue I could follow to (at last) have this working ? > > Thank you. > > P.S: my /etc/init.d/pcmcia script file contains now a 'exit 0' at the > top since I was told that PCMCIA and kernel 2.6.0 was no good. I only > now use hotplug stuff as recommended. > > zeDek -- "GNU is my religion" .O. Xavier Maillard ..O Reims - France OOO +33 6 62 59 68 62
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