Re: pcmcia administration

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Stephane" == Stephane Provost <Provost> writes:

    Stephane> You will need to install the pcmcia_cs package (look it
    Stephane> up on freshmeat). I know there's a .deb package.

    Stephane> Once you got that installed, I believe you'll have to
    Stephane> compile the modules and your kernel to support
    Stephane> these. Don't forget to select the right card type when
    Stephane> compiling the pcmcia package, especially for the
    Stephane> 3c589. You'll need to insmod it probably ("insmod 3c59x"
    Stephane> does the job for me) and that should do it. If you
    Stephane> didn't modify your startup files, you'll also need to do
    Stephane> "/etc/init.d/networking start" to see eth0 back in your
    Stephane> interfaces list.

In addition, the standard pcmcia distribution now detects and uses the
Debian network interfaces file (man interfaces). You can configure the
PCMCIA card just like any other network device via
/etc/network/interfaces. 

Install the iwconfig package, and you should be able to control the
wireless parameters via the interfaces file. Just at the word
wireless_ to the front of the iwconfig parameter name (for example, to
set essid use wireless_essid in the interfaces file).

If I'm making no sense to you it is probably because you have to go
try it ;-)

Cheers!
Shyamal