Hello, I recently installed this card on my laptop and it works, but it doesn't "Just Work". The problem, as far as I can tell is that when booting, the pcmcia startup scripts attempt to associate the wlan0 interface with the ds module (as illustrated by the boot-time messages I will post below). This fails, as the card is supposed to work (and does) with the linux-wlan-ng driver, which is named prism2_cs. Later in the boot process, something also attempts to fire up the card with this driver, but this also fails (maybe because it looks like it's already been configured to use ds? I don't know, I'm quite confused by it all). Anyway, after much trial and error, I've concocted a script that gets the card working once the machine is booted, the gist of which is: ifup with a static configuration, ifdown, replace the static config (I'm talking /etc/network/interfaces here) with one suitable for dhcp (I'm using dhcpcd) and ifup again. Then it just goes for days... Here's the boot-time message where it first tries to fire up wlan0: Configuring network interfaces... Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.1 kernel build: 2.4.16 unknown options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] ds: no socket drivers loaded! unloading PCMCIA Card Services insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/ds.o: insmod wlan0 failed wlanctl-ng: No such device Failed to enable the device, exitcode= 1 . run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/linux-wlan-ng_pre-up exited with return code 1 Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.1 kernel build: 2.4.16 unknown options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] ds: no socket drivers loaded! unloading PCMCIA Card Services insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/ds.o: insmod wlan0 failed dhcpcd[110]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device Thanks, James
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