Hello,

So my friend was nice enough to get me a wireless card for Christmas (turns out he just wanted me to stop dragging cat5 all over his house when I come over), and surprise, he bought one that works in Linux.... or is supposed to anyway. This thing will not work for me for some reason.

I am using:

Debian sid
Linksys WPC11 v4 802.11b wireless pcmcia card
Kernel 2.4.22
linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre9

Here's what I have tried:

1. I have compiled the kernel (2.4.22) _without_ any pcmcia support as suggested in some of the how-tos I have seen.

2. Compiled the pcmcia-cs sources and installed them

3. Compiled and installed the prism2_cs driver from wlan-ng

When I put the card into the pcmcia slot, the power led comes on. It does not automatically load the prism2_cs driver for me (pcmcia services is running) - so I tried loading the driver myself. It loads fine, but I have yet to see a wlan0 in ifconfig. The card is listed in the /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf as this:

card "Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
  version "Instant Wireless ", " Network PC CARD", "Version 01.02"
  bind "prism2_cs"

What am I doing wrong? I have also tried compiling pcmcia support into the kernel instead, but I get the exact same results that way.

Thanks for your help,

Adam Olsen


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