I can't ifconfig my wifi-pcmcia card on a hp zt1000 serie.

[Francois Maltey <Francois.Maltey@enst-bretagne.fr>]

Hello everybody !

I use a laptop HP zt1201s (a zt1000 serie) with linux.
The distribution is a debian woody. 

The kernel is a 2.4.18 with the acpi patch. 
The .config is almost the .config file from the debian image 2.4.18-686.

I buy a netgear MA401RA wireless pcmcia card. 

I install wireless-tools with iwconfig and pcmcia-cs packages.

And iwconfig won't work : "no wireless extension"

What I do : 

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I type 
> modprobe yenta_socket ; modprobe ds ; 
and the green led of the card go on.

I type 
> modprobe orinoco ; modprobe orinoco_cs ; 

With lsmod I find all theses modules with hermes, af_packet and pcmcia_core.

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I must often reinstall pcmcia-cs package because 
"cardctl ident" doesn't work the first time. 
> cardctl ident 
Socket 0:
  no product info available
> dpkg --remove pcmcia-cs ; dpkg --purge pcmcia-cs ; apt-get install pcmcia-cs

When there is an error I find with dmesg :
cs: warning: no high memory space available!
cs: uanble to map card memory! (twice)

When cardctl ident is right I get in dmesg :
cs: IO port probel 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean
cs: IO port probel 0x0800-0x08ff: clean
cs: IO port probel 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-037f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probel 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean

In /var/log/kern.log I find : 
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq11
Socket status:300000010

When "cardctl ident" is right I get :
Socket 0:
  product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P", "Eval-RevA"
  manfild: 0x000b, 0x7300
  function: 6 (network)

In /var/log/syslog I find : 
cardmgr[934] : unsupported card in socket 0
cardmgr[934] :   product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA wireless PC", "Card" [is right]
cardmgr[934] :   manfild: 0x000b, 0x7300

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I add a /etc/modutils/wireless_pcmica file with one line : 
alias wlan0 orinoco_cs and make update-modules after.

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When I type "iwconfig wlan0" I get "wlan0   no wireless extension"
ifconfig wlan0|eth0 12.3.4.5 doesn't work.

Where is my mistake ?