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thinkpad pad, woody and a linksys wpc11 lan card



Just purchased a Linksys WPC11 wireless lan card to use with my
thinkpad. Currently running woody with kernel 2.4.16. I compiled the
kernel with the Prsim drivers as modules. hermes.o, orinoco.o and
orinoco_cs.o appear in /lib/modules.../wireless. pcmcia-cs is installed
and
working properly.

When I insert the card into the pcmcia slot I hear one high pitched beep
followed by a lower pitch. Cardinfo sts the card has been identified as
a D-Link DWL-650 11Mps Wireless Adapter. Searches on google and debian
planet reveal conflicting statements on how to configure this card and
with which driver.

/var/log/daemon.log reveals the following

Dec 21 01:48:30 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: watching 2 sockets
Dec 21 01:48:30 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: initializing socket 0
Dec 21 01:48:30 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: socket 0: D-Link DWL-650 11 Mbps
Wireless Adapter
Dec 21 01:48:30 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs'
Dec 21 01:48:30 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: + modprobe: Can't locate module
wvlan_cs
Dec 21 01:48:30 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: modprobe exited with status 255
Dec 21 01:48:30 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: module
/lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/wvlan_cs.o not available
Dec 21 01:48:32 thinkpad cardmgr[2024]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable

How do I get this card to load the appropriate module which I assume is
orinoco_cs?

I tried cardctl ident and the output was: Socket 0:
                                                              product
info: "Instant Wireless " , " Network PC CARD" , "Version 01.02", ""
                                                              manfid:
0x0156, 0x0002
                                                              function:
6 (network)


The end of /etc/pcmcia/config sts:

#Include configuration files for add-on drivers
source ./*.conf
#Include local configuration settings
source ./config.opts

So witha text editor I created a file called linksys_wpc11.conf and
added the following:

card "Instant Wireless Network PC CARD Version 01.02"
    manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
    bind "orinoco_cs"

This seems to have no effect, I have been reading the docs and man
pages, but I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Any help help or redirection to simple (i.e. newbie) documention would
be appreciated.




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