Re: PCMCIA wireless on kernel 2.6
Better still, use hostap. It has far more function that the
orinoco driver, supports the same (more or less) set of
chips (the prism 2/2.5/3 set) and runs using the standard
pcmcia support in the recent 2.6 kernels. If you are running
with a 2.6 kernel (there are only prebuild modules for
2.4.26) you need the hostap-source package, along with
wireless-tools and hostap-utils. Then build the modules
you are done.
David
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:16, Marcus Will, FG MUCOSA, +49(431)597-1487
wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
>
> What's been working for me so far:
>
> - Build your kernel 2.6.8
> - install the pcmcia_cs sources from sf.net
> - just run the >configure< of the pcmcia_cs sources
> (The 2.6 relies on the pcmcia kernel infrastructure: don't
> build anything here.)
> - get the wlan-ng sources and build the >prism< modules
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Marcus
>
> > As far as I understand the documentation, the 2632W should be
> > supported
> > by the orinoco_cs driver. (It's the old version of the card, of circa
> > 2001 or so, not the new Atmel based one.) This driver is built, and I
> > can load it with modprobe, but to no further effect.
> >
> > I'm using the yenta driver for the PCMCIA subsystem itself.
> > This driver
> > loads ok, according to the boot messages, although I'm not
> > entirely sure
> > that I have a yenta socket. In my previous (kernel 2.4)
> > installation of
> > the same laptop, the PCMCIA driver was some "i.....", where
> > ... was some
> > string of numbers. lspci reports the PCMCIA controller as "CardBus
> > bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)".
> >
> > The yenta driver can't be all wrong, though, because my cardbus
> > Tulip-based ethernet card is recognised and loaded properly
> > (up to the
> > point that I can see the network interface with ifconfig).
> >
> > I'm thoroughly confused about the whole process of detecting PCMCIA
> > cards and loading the appropriate modules in Linux 2.6, and I
> > can't find
> > any documentation that would explain how to fix my problem.
> >
> > Can somebody help me out with this? I'd be happy to send you config
> > files and debugging output, only I don't know what to put here and I
> > don't want to spam the list more than necessary.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alexander.
> >
> >
> >
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