Re: Wireless Help

["mike808" <mike808@users.sourceforge.net>]

> 7.3 did just fine on my laptop with an Orinoco silver card.
> I got a Ricoh PCI->PCMCIA adapter card, and tried to go that route.

> No luck.  Since I'm not a big fan of the
> PCMCIA adapter cards, I tried to go another route.

> I've tried the Linksys WUSB11 v2.6, as well as the MA311 from Netgear.
> Neither have worked.

You *do* know that these are just a silver card with a PCI->PCMCIA adapter
built into them?

You don't say whether your problem is in the 'can't see the card' stage
(meaning you don't have PCMCIA setup yet), or in the 'ifup wlan0' stage.

I *can* say the 'ifup wlan0' part is very, very b0rked in RH7.3.

You should see PCMCIA stuff and hotplug stuff load at boot time.
'pcic_probe' should display your card. I have a Buffalo card, which
uses the Ricoh RL5C475 chip.

In particular something called 'pcmcia_core' and 'yenta_socket' with
the card loaded.

You should at the least be able to run 'cardinfo' and see your card.
Or 'cardctl status'.

You will need to make sure you have the following packages installed:
  kernel-pcmcia-cs
  wireless-tools

As I mentioned, and the wireless interface up/down scripts are what's
b0rked in RH7.3. It's not a hardware or driver problem.

If you don't have the time to track down the interaction between the
wireless.opts stuff and the /etc/syscontrol/ network interface stuff
(the wireless-up/down scripts are what's b0rked), it would be worth your
while to be very, very nice to Steve Pritchard, and show up at one of the
LUG meetings he attends. All it should take is to bring your setup to a
meeting (LUCI or SILUG) and ask for help. Or setup something with him
directly. steve@silug.org. He got mine working in 30 minutes when I ran
into the same problems.

Mike







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