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Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?



On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 00:16, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> >
> > to this:
> > ===============================================
> > # Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia)
> > PCMCIA=yes
> > PCIC=yenta_socket
> > PCIC_OPTS=
> > CORE_OPTS=
> > CARDMGR_OPTS=
> > ===============================================

That's the one I have nowadays.


> I have tried the 2 configurations above but still have problems. It
> seems to me that I have new problems. Now whenever I plug my WIFI card,
> I have messages like this:
> 
> ,----
> | Dec 31 12:11:03 totoz cardmgr[1510]: socket 0: Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card
> | Dec 31 12:11:03 totoz kernel: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Unsupported mode
> | Dec 31 12:11:04 totoz cardmgr[1510]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> `----

You have disabled ISA Bus - you need to re-enable it.


> Maybe you can send to me either your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and tell
> me how you did configure you WIFI card (using /etc/network/interfaces
> or using the built-in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts ?).

I use whereami (I wrote it).  Essentially this uses
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, but these have not changed for me to go from
2.4.23 -> 2.6.0.



> > 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
> 
> I have removed ISA support from kernel too but obviously that didn't
> fix anything here.

Nononono!  That's what you _shouldn't_ do :-(

Cheers,
					Andrew.
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