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ClausH
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Joined: 03 Aug 2003
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Location: Herning, denmark
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 Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 6:02 am Post subject: How i got my 3com atmel based card to wotk with kernel 2.6 |
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While I were running kernel 2.4, I had my wlan card working just fine, using the atmelwlandriver. However, upon changing to kernel 2.6 I encountered some problems. I made one attempt to get it to work when first installed the kernel, but i could not get it working. So after a week or so I decided to try again, and to write down what i did, so I would not forget it (I forget things all the time ).
First of all,
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emerge hotplug pcmcia-cs
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You will probably have to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" for pcmcia-cs.
Then get firmware.agent from cvs, and put it in /etc/hotplug. I do not know if this is needed anymore.
Using
I got
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Socket 0:
product info: "3Com", "3CRSHPW_96 Wireless LAN PC Card"
manfid: 0x0101, 0x0696
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available
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So in /etc/pcmcia/atmel.conf i added
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device "atmel_cs"
class "network" module "atmel_cs"
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card "3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless LAN PC Card"
manfid 0x0101, 0x0696
bind "atmel_cs"
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It is possible that the file atmel.conf is from my prior installation of the atmelwlandriver, if you haven't got it, just create it.
Then i downloaded the firmware from www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel.
I unpacked it, and did an "make install-loader", ran
/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/atmel.hotplug.
Restart pcmcia
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/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
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Now the firmware can be inserted using
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atmel_fwl eth1 /usr/share/firmware/atmel_at76c50x/<firmware>
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The firmware I use is atmel_at76c502_3com.bin.
Oh, and the kernel, i compiled the folowing as a module
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Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) --->
<M> Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards
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PCMCIA/CardBus support --->
<M> PCMCIA/CardBus support
<M> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support
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When you have inserted the firmware, you should be able to do a
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iwconfig eth1 essid any
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/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
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And it should start fine.
I then modified the startup script to load the firmware.
A thanks to koala for telling me how to do, and suggesting that i wrote it down.
Mvh Claus Holmgaard
Edit: corrected a few errors!
Edit2: corrected an error i forgot! |
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Baker
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Joined: 13 Oct 2003
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After countless hours of pulling my hair out I finally got my 3com xjack card to work.
The only difference is
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for me was
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Seron
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Joined: 31 Dec 2002
Posts: 293
Location: Malmö, Sweden
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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After emerging net-wireless/atmel-firmware-1.3 I found the firmware in
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md2112
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Joined: 26 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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I am using the same 3com card but i do not get an ip address
After running the /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start the wireless card light flashes for a few seconds then goes off. Then timesout trying to get an ip address
iwconfig shows the access point correctly but no data received or transferred.
Tried ifconfig eth1 up but no ip address
Tried with emerge net_wireless/atmel_firmware and thekelleys code which i guess is the same
Using toshiba laptop, yentoo is compiled in the kernel, as is atmel
lsmod shows yentoo, atmel, atmel_cs
firmware all present in /lib/firmware
atmel.conf present in /etc/pcmcia
The laptop and card work fine ni windows but i want to use gentoo
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