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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:12 pm    Post subject: PCMCIA WLAN card problems Reply with quote

I've broswed through some WLAN guides, but I'm still don't get much further.

I am trying to connect to my WPA-PSK protected WLAN with my U.S. Robotics Wireless MaxG PCMCIA card. First of all, the card seems completely dead, none of the LED lights on it show any kind of life, as they should when it's plugged in the slot. I built the kernel with full PCMCIA support and upon booting, the pcmcia service starts OK.

I have installed wpa-supplicant and created a config file for it, with the help of the example config file, so I think it's right. However, the card still does not show any life with wpa-supplicant installed, so I don't think it's a authentication failure that makes my card not do it's job. It just seems the whole card is not yet recognized by Gentoo at this point, any way I can check ? With the install CD, I did a iwconfig and all it saw was my onboard WLAN card, but the iwconfig option for some reason does not work anymore now from my harddisk, so I can't check if it sees it now that pcmcia is started, what it didn't do at the install cd.

So summarized: How do I get my PCMCIA WLAN card to get alive ?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have the right module for your wlan card in your kernel ?
I don't know which chipset your WLAN card uses. You can find out with
Code:
lspci
. (lspci is part of pciutils).
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My built-in WLAN card is also visible there, that runs on the PRISM 2.5 chipset, which I already knew. Not sure about my PCMCIA card though, it's not listed with lspci. Only thing coming close to PCMCIA is:

Code:
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: 02 Micro, Inc. 0Z6912 Cardbus Controller


But that is just the PCMCIA slot, not the card in it.

So let's try this from another point of view, what if I want my built-in WLAN card to get to work (which it isn't yet) how do install the PRISM 2.5 drivers ?

Edit: Hmm, just did a emerge wireless-tools and now I can run iwconfig again, I discovered that this is the only thing it has to say:

Code:
lo        no wireless extensions


nothing more then that, so it does not see ANY of my wireless cards, while lspci does, this is weird. :?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am not really sure but I would give the Hermes chipset a try
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And how do I install the drivers for it ?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, I just noticed that my PCMCIA slot is not initialized properly, I get this message on boot:

Code:
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
* PCMCIA support detected
* Starting pcmcia ...
cardmgr[4868]: no sockets found!
* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or support compiled into the kernel [!!]


I did compile all the possible PCMCIA modules in the kernel, but not sure if I did it as module or as built-in, any way I can check that ?
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