On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:17:31PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote: ... >I'm ready to give up and reload windows on my laptop because I am getting >nowhere on this. I have spent about 12 hours trying everything I could think >of. I loaded pcmcia-cs-3.1.30 and also linux-wlan-ng-0.1.10 and still cannot >get it to work. I even went as far as doing a complete reload of >OpenLinux3.1. No matter what I do or try, the driver simply won't load. I >still get the beep boop thing instead of the beep beep. >I realize that I don't know that much about the workings of linux but this is >rediculous to spend this much time and effort to get nowhere.
What is in the /var/log/messages file when you insert the card? Remove the card, wait a few seconds, reinsert it, wait a few seconds more, then look at /var/log/messages. It will tell you what's going on, and most likely you will see that it's not finding an identification string that it recognizes from the card. Often this is something as simple as the last character of the ID string (e.g. 3c905a vs 3c905b). I have gotten some NICs to work when this occurred by editing the /etc/pcmcia/config file. Find a similar entry, copy it, then change the ID string to be the same as that found in the /var/log/messages file. There's also a file, wireless.opts, in that same directory that may have an affect on wireless, but I've never played with any of these so can't say anything halfway intelligent about it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
