pcmcia cards not detected

mstamat · Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 3:51 pm Post subject: pcmcia cards not detected

Hi,
I have a thinkpad T21 with gentoo linux and I can't get my pcmcia wlan cards to work. pcmcia and cardbus support is compiled into the kernel.

The modules for the cards are compiled. If I boot and the card is in place it is recognized, but I get a dhcp timeout. If it is not in place when I boot there is no response to inserting/removing it.

If I use cardctl though to notify the system that I inserted/removed a card, the actions (stopping the network interface and removing the card moudules) are carries out as expected.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
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oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Have you turned on cardmgr? What kind of WLAN PCMCIA cards, just curious as what works and doesn't.
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mstamat · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject: more info

Hi oniq.
I am using compaq WL110 wlan cards which are lucent-orinoco compatible. I also have tried using Cisco Aironet340 cards.

How do I enable cardmgr? Does it need anything else besides starting /etc/init.d/pcmcia?

Thanks,
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Manolis

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

You should just be able to run cardmgr.
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BlackBart · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 252

if you get a dhcpcd timeout using a wi-fi card it could be because you didn't set the ssid, to do that just add "iwconfig eth0 essid INSERTESSIDHERE" to your /etc/conf.d/net file. That fixes it for me. Note you haver to emerge wireless-tools.