PCMCIA nic: getting it working with pcmcia-cs (for n00bs!)

bryon · Apprentice Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 163

I would love it if somewone could make a doc on how to get Kismet working with prisim chipset and Cisco drivers. Preferable using emerge and using the cvs drivers.
Thanks

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kappax · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:15 pm Post subject:

I seem to have a problem with the "emerge pcmcia" drivers, when i pull the card out my system crashes, but if i compile the drivers in the kernel i dont get the crash when i pull the card out.

It is not so much that i pull my card out alot, it is that when apm drops down in to standby or what not, it tunrs the card off, and when the computer comes back on it crashes >
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pi-cubic · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 143

icecube · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 34

All of the posts have been very helpful. I actually got the card up and running with cisco's drivers and the 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 kernel. However, I wanted the get Kismet to work and could not seem to get the sourceforge airo-linux drivers to work. So I went to 2.4.20-gentoo-r5. What I got is posted below when I tried to start pcmcia services.

Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.4
Jun 5 00:13:51 [kernel] Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
Jun 5 00:13:51 [kernel] ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,10 PCI status changes
Jun 5 00:13:51 [cardmgr] watching 2 sockets
Jun 5 00:13:51 [cardmgr] starting, version is 3.2.4
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] socket 0: 350 Series Wireless LAN Adapter
Jun 5 00:13:52 [kernel] cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] executing: 'modprobe airo'
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] + Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/a
iro.o will taint the kernel: no license
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] + See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
tainted modules
Jun 5 00:13:52 [kernel] airo: Probing for PCI adapters
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] + Module airo loaded, with warnings
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] executing: 'modprobe airo_cs'
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] + Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/pcmcia/airo_cs.o wil
l taint the kernel: no license
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] + See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
tainted modules
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] + Module airo_cs loaded, with warnings
Jun 5 00:13:52 [cardmgr] bind 'airo_cs' to socket 0 failed: Operation not permitted

No matter what I did, the bind error was always there. So I caught a wild hair and decided to use 2.4.21-rc7-ac1. And low and behold life entered my card again. So I just wanted to share the things I had to do to get it to work.

1. Copied over my .config file from my gentoo-r5 kernel and ran 'make
oldconfig'. Then ran make menuconfig to double check all the settings.
2. Compiled and installed the new kernel.
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
mount /boot
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-rc7-ac1
edit grub.conf to reflect the new kernel
umount /boot
3. Reboot and relink /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-rc7-ac1
4. emerge anything that needs to be a module (I do e100 and alsa-driver)
5. Edit the pcmcia-cs-3.2.4.ebuild to look like this below. You probably want to save this off and do the protect thing so you can use it again.

...

src_unpack() {
unpack ${P}.tar.gz

# pcmcia-cs now has the latest orinoco driver included

cd ${S}
epatch ${DISTDIR}/${P}-orinoco-patch.diff

cd ${S}
mv Configure Configure.orig
sed -e 's:usr/man:usr/share/man:g' Configure.orig > Configure
chmod ug+x Configure
#man pages will now install into /usr/share/man

einfo "copying airo-linux drivers from sourceforge into build dir"
einfo "note: malloc.h is deprecated in airo_cs, use slab.h"
cp /your-directory/airo-linux/kernel/airo.c ${S}/wireless
cp /your-directory/airo-linux/kernel/airo_cs.c ${S}/wireless
cp /your-directory/airo-linux/kernel/airo.h ${S}/wireless
cp /your-directory/airo-linux/kernel/aes.h ${S}/wireless
cp /your-directory/airo-linux/kernel/aestab.h ${S}/wireless
cp /your-directory/airo-linux/kernel/mic.h ${S}/wireless

}

...

IMPORTANT: Before you emerge pcmcia-cs, you must edit airo_cs.c and change the reference for mallac.h to slab.h. If you don't the compile will fail using a 2.4.21 series kernel.

5. Now emerge pcmcia-cs. If you followed the kernel configuration instructions at the beginning of this post, when you start pcmcia services or reboot, you won't get any errors and when your card is inserted it will come to life. Posts before this show you how to get things configured.

6. The one last thing you may have trouble with is the iwconfig reporting different versions of wireless extensions. This is easily solved by following the following steps outlined at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html.

# iwconfig says : "Warning: Driver for device XXXX has been compiled with version XX"

1. Do cp /usr/src/linux/include/linux/wireless.h /usr/include/linux
2. Recompile and reinstall the wireless tools
3. Use "iwconfig --version" to check that versions matches
4. If you still have this message after this, or if the driver version is a bogus number, your driver need fixing...

Note that for us gentoo users, step 2 means 'emerge wireless-tools'. Took me a minute to figure that out as I thought pcmcia-cs provided iwconfig and the other iw* utilities. Guess I was too happy that the other stuff works. Hope this helps cisco users and if I made any mistakes please post corrections.

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Hi, pcmcia works fine, the only problmem I have is starting my pcmcia NIC automatically.

During boot, i get this messages

bvetter · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 46

hi there
at first thx for this good how-to
but can't get my new BelkinF5D6020 to work
pcmcia-cs install worked fine, also the orinoco_cs driver loads fine
but cardmgr keeps on telling me that there is an unsupported Card in socket 1.
eth0 my build in nic works fine with eepro100

thx in advance

goanuj · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject: orinoco_cs not working :(

bvetter: how did you get orinoco_cs to work? did you copy net.eth0 to net.eth1 and change the settings?

I have emerged pcmcia-cs and my 3c754 NIC works fine under it. However, when I remove my 3c754 card and put in the orinoco wireless card, my laptop does not seem to do anything

MHD · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 88

Excelent!!
Worked an absolute treat!

Just a note: on some systems /etc/modules.autoload is actually /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-X.Y

Thanks once again for a very easy to follow instructions! This Db is a GREAT resource!

Scott

enginerd · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 19

Hey goanuj I am having the exact same problem as you are with the orinoco card. I have my normal SMC 8040 TX card working with pcmcia-cs and I can take it out and put it in and it autodetects etc. When I insert the Orinoco card (silver) it does not notice its existence, I hear a high beep and a low beep. I have done the same as you copying /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to eth1 as well as making a new IFACE entry. I have also added orinoco_cs in /etc/modules.autoload but so far nothing much has been helping. Any input from a similar users experience would be helpful. And I am planning to use this for war driving so any suggestion on an antennae or signal amplifier would be appreciated.

thanks
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Cammy · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 6

@charlieg

Thanks a lot. Worked like a charm after running through your tut.

Cammy

charlieg · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 10:21 am Post subject:

You're welcome, Cammy.

Goanju and I will be getting it into an XML file (hopefully as an official doc) soon - Goanju has done the preliminary work and I'll finish it up over the next few days.
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enginerd · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 19

meant to tell you thanks chaalieg, it helped me get the smc card working in my system. If you want help getting it in XML I will donate some time.
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clumsyninja · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 61 Location: North Texas

been meaning to tell you thanks for about five or six months now, your tips got my pcmcia up and running on my dell inspiron in no time at all.

so thanks

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goanuj · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 4:47 am Post subject: Wireless part of document

Charlieg,

I will also put some more time in when I get my sutpid wireless card to work, it pains me to see KNOPPIX get my wireless card up and running without any problems, but when I try to do it through gentoo I can't get anything to work!

Private message me if you need some more help with the XML file, I know I only did about a third of the entire document, but it was tough! Transferring normal docs into XML docs is time consuming!

I know with the orinoco cards (and wireless cards in general) there is something called scanning mode and something called monitor mode. I need to do some research to figure out which one is needed for kismet.

There is a developer that posted this

weazy · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:45 pm Post subject:

I am running a Dell Inspiron, I have a built in NIC and a PCMCIA Orinoco card.

I have the onboard NIC set as module that doesnt autoload, I wrote a simple script that does the appropriate modprobes if I choose to take the laptop online. I am trying to configure my Orinoco Gold 128 802.11b but am having trouble. I have seen a number of posts and tried following them, but either I am dense or I didn't find the relevant post b/c the procedures haven't been successful. I am sure the problem is an oversight on my behalf. I am going to post what I presume are the relevant config files.

I have no PCMCIA support but I do have wirelss support config'd in the kernel.

when I reboot I see an error that says

Agere Systems Product
Unsupported Card in slot 0

trying to name wireless card as net.eth1
I copied net.eth0 to net.eth1 and didn't make any changes.

/etc/config.d/net looks like:

iface_eth0="dhcp"
iface_eth1="dhcp"

i then run:

insmod i82365
insmod ds
cardmgr -f

cardmgr responds:
cardmgr[16877]: watching 1 sockets

/etc/conf.d/pcmcia:

# Put cardmgr options here
CARDMGR_OPTS="-f"
# To set the PCMCIA scheme at startup...
SCHEME="home"

# These are from the pcmcia-cs distribution, but aren't used yet
# Should be either i82365 or tcic
PCIC="i82365 tcic"
# Put socket driver timing parameters here
PCIC_OPTS=""
# Put pcmcia_core options here
CORE_OPTS=""

kernel config as posted.

reboot. still didnt come up.

ifconfig eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found

lsmod looks like:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
bcm4400 28288 1
ds 7464 1
i82365 41632 1
pcmcia_core 48544 0 [ds i82365]
i810_audio 27528 0
ac97_codec 11208 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 4580 2 [i810_audio]
ide-scsi 9072 0
sg 30604 0 (unused)
sr_mod 18680 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 90228 3 [ide-scsi sg sr_mod]

....

i cant start net.eth1
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
* Bringing eth1 up...
* Failed to bring eth1 up
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weazy · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:03 pm Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=420971#420971
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farphel · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 2 Location: USA-NH

Great thread! It's been a valuable resource. Unfortunatly, I still can't get my wireless card to work!

I'm using a Linksys WPC11 (version 1 - Prism2 chipset). I've tried several combinations of kernel options, kernel modules, pcmcia-cs, and linux-wlan-ng to no avail. I've managed to get 'cardmgr' to recognize the card and load a driver both with the built-in kernel hermes/orinico_cs modules and using linux-wlan-ng's prism2_cs driver. However, in both cases when the module is loaded on card insertion, I get the following error:

nodus · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 73 Location: Lille, France

i'm experiencing a big problem, the ds module can't be load. Here is what demsg is giving me:

kebabkarli · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Tulln/AUSTRIA

I tried it on my acer travelmate 529, but 'i82365 or i82092 do not work.
[
when booting:

initializing [chipset]
initialization failed
]

when trying to do anz' solution (env-update, etc...) i get the following problems:
env-update.....successful
source /etc/profiles .....no such file or directory
ldconfig ...........no answer
update-modules force .....depmod: ***Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o

has anybody an idea about the problem :?:

APM isn't working at the moment. so I wasn't able to do update-modules......
my fault.
Now working

bbarrera · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 44

nalin

Ledneh · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 1:27 am Post subject:

Here's a stumper for y'all. Is there a way to add new driver support to pcmcia-cs without having to go insane with the programming (of which I am not l33t)? I have a Linksys WPC11 v4 which uses the RTL8180 drivers (available at the Realtek website).

While I can get it work with a load of fairly arcane iwpriv commands (such as iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepdkeyid=0,wepkey40_1=1111111111 for example) and a few insmods, doing that manually at bootup is a pain, especially since the script misfires half the time (resulting in either a failure to connect--best case--or, worst case, a kernel panic). Really, it's exactly half. I've done the math.

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dalamarian · n00b Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 30

Moved to more appropriate forum

goanuj

what am I doing wrong?