Wireless card stops working from gentoo-r1 to r2

paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

Hi all,

I have a Linksys WPC11 wireless network card. It's been working great for a while now. I upgraded my kernel yesterday to 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 (I had r1 before) and re-emerged pcmcia-cs and linux-wlan-ng and it no longer works. All of the correct modules are still in modules.autoload and they all load up without any errors. The lights on my card do not come up though as they did before. Starting the pcmcia service like I normally do tells me it's watching 1 socket but it doesn't give me the second beep and there are still no lights on the card.

To verify that this is an issue with the kernel I reset my /usr/src/linux back to r1 and recompiled the kernel as well as pcmcia-cs and linux-wlan-ng and rebooted and everything worked just as before.

The kernel .config files are the same by the way.

Has anyone encountered this with their WPC11 or other wireless cards?

Thanks.
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jobeus · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 52

Do you have 2 sockets?

Mine stopped monitoring the top socket after an upgrade... And I never did get a response as to why this was happening. I just started using the bottom socket.

Toshiba Satellite 3000 and a Orinoco Wireless card... FYI.

snkmoorthy · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 376

have you tried orinoco_cs driver instead?

paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

The orinoco thing is a hack really and I'd prefer not to use it. Can't use monitor mode I don't think with it.

It's strange that a kernel upgrade would break this.

I only have the one card slot, btw. :?:

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paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

Seems as tho getting rid of modular pcmcia-cs and building it into the newer r4 kernel works for me. I still use linux-wlan-ng as before.

Edit - Or not... I took it back out and recompiled the kernel and re-emerged pcmcia-cs and now have to use 'cardctl ident' before the card will connect to my AP. Not sure what's up.

Edit2 - And this seems to go away with -r5 sources. All seems well again. The original problem was due to a sound card patch that I had forgotten to apply to the new kernel source tree. Without it my modules were screwed up.
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