Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:03, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
> Hi,
>
> I have a linksys wifi card that worked pretty well with its linksys AP
> under kernel series 2.4.x but since my switch to 2.6, even if the card
> works, I am always disconnected.
>
> I have tons of messages telling things like: connection, connection
> lost. And so the card is unusable with that kernel. Anybody facing the
> same weird freakness or do I have missed something (again :)) ?
Hi Xavier,
I have a Linksys card (WPC-11 "Instant Wireless" ver.3) and I've
switched to 2.6.0 here, but I do remember getting something like those
sorts of messages ages ago when I switched to the in-kernel PCMCIA
driver from the external ones.
I believe that at that point I had to edit /etc/default/pcmcia from
this:
===============================================
# Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia)
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=
===============================================
to this:
===============================================
# Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia)
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=yenta_socket
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=
===============================================
The only problems I have had getting my WLAN to work with 2.6.0 so far
have been in disabling the ISA BUS support (hey, I won't need that will
I? Yup, you will). Once I re-enabled it everything is working fine,
except I no longer get beeps when I insert/remove the card - probably a
google search would tell me some module option or hotplug option
somewhere that would fix that too... :-)
Regards,
Andrew
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