On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:35, Adam Olsen wrote: > 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 > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > you probably just need to add the card to /etc/network/interfaces. Something like:
#auto wlan0 #iface wlan inet dhcp then do a #cardctl eject; cardctl insert Hopefully that should work. do a: ifconfig to see what's up with wlan0. Good Luck Art ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
