Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
OK, it's good to know what the issue is. It seems that I have a peculiar BIOS. I can't see any section on it regarding IRQ settings. I'm running a Dell Latitude LS400. Does anyone know how to find the settings? I'm sorry this isn't exactly a MDK related question and I know most BIOSes are different but I figure someone has a Dell and has done this before. Thanks for all the help especially Derek. Thanks -Noah On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:52, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 01:30, Noah A Hicks wrote: Well I've booted with the card in and I heard no double beep. I did see a message that said: starting pcmcia cardmgr[864]: socket0: CardBus hotplug device Are you sure your laptop supports cardbus? 2 of mine (newer ones) don't though they do support 32 bits cards whereas an older Compaq works fine:o( What you'll be looking for in dmesg is a reference to a PCI network-card you don't physically have. That'l be your card(bus). Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
Did you check that /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains PCMCIA=yes? And do you hear two 'beeps' from your computer when booting? The DWL-650 is supported by Mandrake using the wvlan_cs driver by default. derk On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 5:24 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Some information I forgot to include: PCMCIA wireless card make: D-Link Model: DWL-650 I saw on a website I can't remember that this card was supported in Linux. The website didn't mention how difficult it might be to get it running ;). -Noah On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Noah A Hicks wrote: Well derek, I did exactly as you said but I don't see any thing on the MDK control center wizard regarding wireless networking. It only shows my ethernet card. I installed the RPMS you suggested with grpmi. dmesg does not show anything with PCMCIA. I have found an article on: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/17/1610206.shtml?tid=14 with looks really similar to my problem. I have tried the first few steps with no success. Any other pointers? Thanks alot Noah On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 5:35 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me the basic steps to getting a pcmcia wireless card setup on MDK 9.0? I have just purchased a card and I recall MDK Linux setup asking me if I had a PCMCIA card but at that time I did not. I've looked at: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded the file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ but I don't know if I should start unpacking this file and compiling everything or if MDK has some way of setting it up. The system seems to know that something has happened when I plug it in, so maybe it's just a matter of loading modules into the kernel. I have no idea. Thanks for any info, -Noah No do not compile anything. Everything is already available. If you did not have a pcmcia adapter in your computer when you installed then you need to install pcmcia-cs which is already on your CDs. Just use your Mandrake Software Manager. You will also need to install wireless-tools RPM (from your CD) Next take a look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and make sure it says PCMCIA=yes Now do a reboot with your card plugged in and you should hear some 'beeps' when the Pcmcia slot is activated. Now just go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre, and hopefully it will detetct your card type and offer you the wireless parameters to set up. The important ones are :- MODE Managed or Ad-Hoc ESSID to match your network RATE 11M KEY your encryption key either in Hex as 11:22:33:44:55 , or in ascii as s:mykey You did not actually say what type if card you have. So we will have to guess if it is a supported model. If it does not work type dmesg in a terminal and look for the setup messages for the pcmcia slot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia does contain PCMCIA=yes, however, the two beeps were not heard at bootup and upon starting GNOME I got the message could not open device /dev/sound/mixer so apparently booting up with the card in kicks my sound card offline. I just rechecked to make sure that the RPMs were installed as you said and they were. -Noah On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Derek Jennings wrote: Did you check that /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains PCMCIA=yes? And do you hear two 'beeps' from your computer when booting? The DWL-650 is supported by Mandrake using the wvlan_cs driver by default. derk On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 5:24 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Some information I forgot to include: PCMCIA wireless card make: D-Link Model: DWL-650 I saw on a website I can't remember that this card was supported in Linux. The website didn't mention how difficult it might be to get it running ;). -Noah On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Noah A Hicks wrote: Well derek, I did exactly as you said but I don't see any thing on the MDK control center wizard regarding wireless networking. It only shows my ethernet card. I installed the RPMS you suggested with grpmi. dmesg does not show anything with PCMCIA. I have found an article on: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/17/1610206.shtml?tid=14 with looks really similar to my problem. I have tried the first few steps with no success. Any other pointers? Thanks alot Noah On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 5:35 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me the basic steps to getting a pcmcia wireless card setup on MDK 9.0? I have just purchased a card and I recall MDK Linux setup asking me if I had a PCMCIA card but at that time I did not. I've looked at: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded the file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ but I don't know if I should start unpacking this file and compiling everything or if MDK has some way of setting it up. The system seems to know that something has happened when I plug it in, so maybe it's just a matter of loading modules into the kernel. I have no idea. Thanks for any info, -Noah No do not compile anything. Everything is already available. If you did not have a pcmcia adapter in your computer when you installed then you need to install pcmcia-cs which is already on your CDs. Just use your Mandrake Software Manager. You will also need to install wireless-tools RPM (from your CD) Next take a look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and make sure it says PCMCIA=yes Now do a reboot with your card plugged in and you should hear some 'beeps' when the Pcmcia slot is activated. Now just go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre, and hopefully it will detetct your card type and offer you the wireless parameters to set up. The important ones are :- MODE Managed or Ad-Hoc ESSID to match your network RATE 11M KEY your encryption key either in Hex as 11:22:33:44:55 , or in ascii as s:mykey You did not actually say what type if card you have. So we will have to guess if it is a supported model. If it does not work type dmesg in a terminal and look for the setup messages for the pcmcia slot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
In that case open MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices and check that pcmcia is set to start at boot, and if it already is then you may have an IRQ conflict between your pcmcia slot and your sound card. You can check that in KDE Control CentreInformationInterrupts (I daresay there is a Gnome equivalent) If you have an IRQ conflict you have to fix it in your BIOS. Start by setting PnPAwareOS=no, then if you are unable to assign IRQ lines in your BIOS, try disabling unused devices, or moving cards to different slots. It can be a bit of a PITA getting the IRQ lines right. derek On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 1:42 pm, Noah A Hicks wrote: /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia does contain PCMCIA=yes, however, the two beeps were not heard at bootup and upon starting GNOME I got the message could not open device /dev/sound/mixer so apparently booting up with the card in kicks my sound card offline. I just rechecked to make sure that the RPMs were installed as you said and they were. -Noah On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Derek Jennings wrote: Did you check that /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains PCMCIA=yes? And do you hear two 'beeps' from your computer when booting? The DWL-650 is supported by Mandrake using the wvlan_cs driver by default. derk On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 5:24 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Some information I forgot to include: PCMCIA wireless card make: D-Link Model: DWL-650 I saw on a website I can't remember that this card was supported in Linux. The website didn't mention how difficult it might be to get it running ;). -Noah On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Noah A Hicks wrote: Well derek, I did exactly as you said but I don't see any thing on the MDK control center wizard regarding wireless networking. It only shows my ethernet card. I installed the RPMS you suggested with grpmi. dmesg does not show anything with PCMCIA. I have found an article on: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/17/1610206.shtml?tid=14 with looks really similar to my problem. I have tried the first few steps with no success. Any other pointers? Thanks alot Noah On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 5:35 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me the basic steps to getting a pcmcia wireless card setup on MDK 9.0? I have just purchased a card and I recall MDK Linux setup asking me if I had a PCMCIA card but at that time I did not. I've looked at: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded the file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ but I don't know if I should start unpacking this file and compiling everything or if MDK has some way of setting it up. The system seems to know that something has happened when I plug it in, so maybe it's just a matter of loading modules into the kernel. I have no idea. Thanks for any info, -Noah No do not compile anything. Everything is already available. If you did not have a pcmcia adapter in your computer when you installed then you need to install pcmcia-cs which is already on your CDs. Just use your Mandrake Software Manager. You will also need to install wireless-tools RPM (from your CD) Next take a look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and make sure it says PCMCIA=yes Now do a reboot with your card plugged in and you should hear some 'beeps' when the Pcmcia slot is activated. Now just go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre, and hopefully it will detetct your card type and offer you the wireless parameters to set up. The important ones are :- MODE Managed or Ad-Hoc ESSID to match your network RATE 11M KEY your encryption key either in Hex as 11:22:33:44:55 , or in ascii as s:mykey You did not actually say what type if card you have. So we will have to guess if it is a supported model. If it does not work type dmesg in a terminal and look for the setup messages for the pcmcia slot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:59 am, Derek Jennings wrote: In that case open MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices and check that pcmcia is set to start at boot, and if it already is then you may have an IRQ conflict between your pcmcia slot and your sound card. You can check that in KDE Control CentreInformationInterrupts (I daresay there is a Gnome equivalent) You can also open a shell and type: cat /proc/interrupts to get the same result. Ah...Linux...so many ways to do things :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
Well I've booted with the card in and I heard no double beep. I did see a message that said: starting pcmcia cardmgr[864]: socket0: CardBus hotplug device So hopefully that would mean that the PCMCIA device is ready to run but the same message saying the computer can't load the sound mixer is present on starting GNOME. This is what is in the interrupts file: CPU0 0: 996204 XT-PIC timer 1: 7840XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 2910618 XT-PIC ltserial 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 4 XT-PIC usb-uhci, Texas Instruments PCI1211, NM256AV 12: 45328 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 64132 XT-PIC ide0 15: 41 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 /proc/interrupts lines 1-14/14 (END) I think it is strange that the sound card NM256AV is there but the PCMCIA card is not. Any ideas? Thanks -Noah On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:59 am, Derek Jennings wrote: In that case open MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices and check that pcmcia is set to start at boot, and if it already is then you may have an IRQ conflict between your pcmcia slot and your sound card. You can check that in KDE Control CentreInformationInterrupts (I daresay there is a Gnome equivalent) You can also open a shell and type: 61 Feb 19 Greg Meyer (3431) Re: [newbie] latest SANE cat /proc/interrupts to get the same result. Ah...Linux...so many ways to do things :-) -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 5:35 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me the basic steps to getting a pcmcia wireless card setup on MDK 9.0? I have just purchased a card and I recall MDK Linux setup asking me if I had a PCMCIA card but at that time I did not. I've looked at: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded the file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ but I don't know if I should start unpacking this file and compiling everything or if MDK has some way of setting it up. The system seems to know that something has happened when I plug it in, so maybe it's just a matter of loading modules into the kernel. I have no idea. Thanks for any info, -Noah No do not compile anything. Everything is already available. If you did not have a pcmcia adapter in your computer when you installed then you need to install pcmcia-cs which is already on your CDs. Just use your Mandrake Software Manager. You will also need to install wireless-tools RPM (from your CD) Next take a look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and make sure it says PCMCIA=yes Now do a reboot with your card plugged in and you should hear some 'beeps' when the Pcmcia slot is activated. Now just go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre, and hopefully it will detetct your card type and offer you the wireless parameters to set up. The important ones are :- MODE Managed or Ad-Hoc ESSID to match your network RATE 11M KEY your encryption key either in Hex as 11:22:33:44:55 , or in ascii as s:mykey You did not actually say what type if card you have. So we will have to guess if it is a supported model. If it does not work type dmesg in a terminal and look for the setup messages for the pcmcia slot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
Well derek, I did exactly as you said but I don't see any thing on the MDK control center wizard regarding wireless networking. It only shows my ethernet card. I installed the RPMS you suggested with grpmi. dmesg does not show anything with PCMCIA. I have found an article on: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/17/1610206.shtml?tid=14 with looks really similar to my problem. I have tried the first few steps with no success. Any other pointers? Thanks alot Noah On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 5:35 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me the basic steps to getting a pcmcia wireless card setup on MDK 9.0? I have just purchased a card and I recall MDK Linux setup asking me if I had a PCMCIA card but at that time I did not. I've looked at: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded the file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ but I don't know if I should start unpacking this file and compiling everything or if MDK has some way of setting it up. The system seems to know that something has happened when I plug it in, so maybe it's just a matter of loading modules into the kernel. I have no idea. Thanks for any info, -Noah No do not compile anything. Everything is already available. If you did not have a pcmcia adapter in your computer when you installed then you need to install pcmcia-cs which is already on your CDs. Just use your Mandrake Software Manager. You will also need to install wireless-tools RPM (from your CD) Next take a look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and make sure it says PCMCIA=yes Now do a reboot with your card plugged in and you should hear some 'beeps' when the Pcmcia slot is activated. Now just go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre, and hopefully it will detetct your card type and offer you the wireless parameters to set up. The important ones are :- MODE Managed or Ad-Hoc ESSID to match your network RATE 11M KEY your encryption key either in Hex as 11:22:33:44:55 , or in ascii as s:mykey You did not actually say what type if card you have. So we will have to guess if it is a supported model. If it does not work type dmesg in a terminal and look for the setup messages for the pcmcia slot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
Some information I forgot to include: PCMCIA wireless card make: D-Link Model: DWL-650 I saw on a website I can't remember that this card was supported in Linux. The website didn't mention how difficult it might be to get it running ;). -Noah On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Noah A Hicks wrote: Well derek, I did exactly as you said but I don't see any thing on the MDK control center wizard regarding wireless networking. It only shows my ethernet card. I installed the RPMS you suggested with grpmi. dmesg does not show anything with PCMCIA. I have found an article on: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/17/1610206.shtml?tid=14 with looks really similar to my problem. I have tried the first few steps with no success. Any other pointers? Thanks alot Noah On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 5:35 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me the basic steps to getting a pcmcia wireless card setup on MDK 9.0? I have just purchased a card and I recall MDK Linux setup asking me if I had a PCMCIA card but at that time I did not. I've looked at: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded the file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ but I don't know if I should start unpacking this file and compiling everything or if MDK has some way of setting it up. The system seems to know that something has happened when I plug it in, so maybe it's just a matter of loading modules into the kernel. I have no idea. Thanks for any info, -Noah No do not compile anything. Everything is already available. If you did not have a pcmcia adapter in your computer when you installed then you need to install pcmcia-cs which is already on your CDs. Just use your Mandrake Software Manager. You will also need to install wireless-tools RPM (from your CD) Next take a look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and make sure it says PCMCIA=yes Now do a reboot with your card plugged in and you should hear some 'beeps' when the Pcmcia slot is activated. Now just go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre, and hopefully it will detetct your card type and offer you the wireless parameters to set up. The important ones are :- MODE Managed or Ad-Hoc ESSID to match your network RATE 11M KEY your encryption key either in Hex as 11:22:33:44:55 , or in ascii as s:mykey You did not actually say what type if card you have. So we will have to guess if it is a supported model. If it does not work type dmesg in a terminal and look for the setup messages for the pcmcia slot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
