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 diff
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 pre
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:59 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> In that case open MandrakeControlCentre>System>Services 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
In that case open MandrakeControlCentre>System>Services 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 Centre>Information>Interrupts (I daresay there is a Gnom
/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
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
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,
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.co
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://pcmci
