Re: PCMCIA hanging on Debian Sarge
The model 8420-WD card uses the Agere chipset, and I don't believe the
driver is included in Debian. But I got mine working on a thinkpad
with Debian last year. The source is out there.
http://www.agere.com/mobility/wireless_lan_drivers.html
has some drivers, but they weren't the ones I used.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:19:29PM -0800, Todd Greenwood wrote:
> Overview:
> I am attempting to install an orinoco\proxim wifi 802.11b card in my ibm
> laptop, but the card fails
> to be recognized by the pcmcia driver. I have researched this on the web,
> asked my friends and
> co-workers, but have come up empty handed. So, having exhausted my
> resources, I'm turning to the
> list. My apologies if this is a duplicate post, but I don't see a record of
> my first attempt at posting this in the archives.
>
> The orinoco card is recognized by the latest knoppix boot cd (cardctl
> info/indent shows some stats),
> but the card doesn't light up. The card is completely unrecognized in
> debian (even tho I installed
> the os with the card in the pcmcia slot!). In a different windows based
> laptop, the card lit up and
> was recognized by the os, so I'm fairly sure the card itself is not dead.
> The fact that the pcmcia
> services hang when I give them a restart command seems to be the smoking
> gun...
>
> REPRO 1 (debian):
> 0. results are the same if the card is in the slot or not
> 1. in tty1
> root@luxor/home/tgreenwo$ /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
> Shutting down PCMCIA services: done.
> Starting PCMCIA services:
>
> 2. in another tty
> tgreenwo@luxor~$ ps aux | grep pcmcia
> root 5942 0.1 0.1 2748 1332 pts/3 S+ 10:05 0:00 /bin/sh
> /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
> root 5983 0.0 0.1 2752 1336 pts/3 S+ 10:05 0:00 /bin/sh
> /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
> tgreenwo 6016 0.0 0.0 1824 576 pts/4 R+ 10:05 0:00 grep pcmcia
>
> 3. the restart and start is hung
>
> REPRO 2 (knoppix):
> 1. boot with card in slot
> 2. cardctl ident / info shows something like this:
> '''
> agere systems
> wireless pc card model 0111
> manfid 0156, 0003
> funcid = 6
> '''
>
> Details:
> CARD:
> orinoco / proxim
> model 8420-WD
> MAC 00 10 C6 21 63 E0
>
> LAPTOP:
> ibm r40 thinkpad
> type 2723 - 26U S/N FX - 09373
> internal wifi ipw2100 MAC 00 04 23 52 B9 4D
> internal nic e100 MAC 00 06 1B CD 22 96
>
> Diagnostics:
> I've posted my diagnostics here to keep the size of this post manageable:
>
> http://greentea99.blogspot.com/2005/11/pcmcia-hanging-on-debian-sarge.html
>
> -Todd
>
>
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