[gentoo-user] Correct way of installing PCMCIA?
Hi fellow gentoo fans, I'm running Gentoo on a Compaq Evo N800C laptop and do have trouble with the correct way to set up PCMCIA (cardbus) support for my Netgear WLAN card. I'm running gs-sources, as well as hotplug and linux-wlan-ng. During startup, hotplug tries to start cardmgr (?) which looks fairly odd to me. Afterwards pcmcia is supposed to start but finds its resouces busy because of that already started cardmgr. Therefore pcmcia fails (and wouldn't call net.wlan0 when a card is inserted) but hotplug wouldn't call it either. I've got pcmcia support compiled into the kernel (under general setup - PCMCIA/Cardbus support), as well as PCMCIA network device support and PCMCIA Wireless LAN under Network device support. (The help tells me I'd have to add corresponding user mode tools like pcmcia-cs to make it work). Somehow I've gotten that very same setup to work with gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6, but in this case I must not have plugged in that WLAN card during boot, otherwise my card wouldn't get properly initialized or the interface be started. What is the preferred way of getting the card to work? Kernel support? pcmcia-cs? Linux-wlan-ng? I'd appreciate if you could point me to a working howto somewhere or give me some assistance. Best regards, - Christian -- Christian Aust mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 84500990 - Yahoo!: datenimperator - MSN: datenimperator GPG: 3C89AD72 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Correct way of installing PCMCIA?
What is the preferred way of getting the card to work? Kernel support? pcmcia-cs? Linux-wlan-ng? I'd appreciate if you could point me to a working howto somewhere or give me some assistance. Best regards, I have a LinkSys WPC11 PCMCIA card up and running with kernel 2.4.21. I have NO PCMCIA support in the kernel, and pcmcia-cs and linux-wlan-ng installed. IIRC I did add a service to my runlevel that starts the cardmanager (pcmcia?). Supposedly pcmcia-cs and linux-wlan-ng have better drivers than the kernel. I guess that can depend on the card(s) you have. Gwen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Correct way of installing PCMCIA?
Gwendolyn van der Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:21:41 +0200: What is the preferred way of getting the card to work? Kernel support? pcmcia-cs? Linux-wlan-ng? I'd appreciate if you could point me to a working howto somewhere or give me some assistance. Best regards, I have a LinkSys WPC11 PCMCIA card up and running with kernel 2.4.21. I have NO PCMCIA support in the kernel, and pcmcia-cs and linux-wlan-ng installed. IIRC I did add a service to my runlevel that starts the cardmanager (pcmcia?). Thanks Gwen. Do I have to remove all PCMCIA support from the kernel, or just PCMCIA network devices and their drivers? I recall that when I removed the PCMCIA options from kernel hotplug support as well, compilation of linux-wlan-ng failed because of no PCMCIA support in the kernel. ;-( Best regards, - Christian -- Christian Aust mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 84500990 - Yahoo!: datenimperator - MSN: datenimperator PGP: A073 F9CD 2F23 25D2 EB95 E7A3 B9B4 2AF3 E103 DB5A -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Correct way of installing PCMCIA?
Thanks Gwen. Do I have to remove all PCMCIA support from the kernel, or just PCMCIA network devices and their drivers? I recall that when I removed the PCMCIA options from kernel hotplug support as well, compilation of linux-wlan-ng failed because of no PCMCIA support in the kernel. I believe I did uncheck the PCMCIA support in the kernel, and did not have a problem with compiling. Will have to check tonite (when I'm at home) though... Gwendolyn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Correct way of installing PCMCIA?
Try this tutorial, it helped me get my wpc11 working http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=26716highlight=wpc11sid=c03023ac8e8abde7472cbd0e41f1aa01 Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Correct way of installing PCMCIA?
When you install pcmcia-cs after merging portage says: To avail yourself of the pcmcia-cs drivers, you have to disable the PCMCIA support in the kernel. (Otherwise, you might experience CardServices version mismatch errors) Proper kernel config for this package is that PCMCIA/CardBus under General Setup is off and Wireless LAN (non-ham radio) is on but no modules or drivers turned on under Network Device Support if you have wireless. :) -- octavio ruiztacvbo at tacvbo do net www.tacvbo.net (+52 55) 55 94 55 68 (+52 55) 55 94 55 68 www.tacvbo.net tacvbo at tacvbo dot net octavio ruiz -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
