Re: Wireless newbie with WaveLan on Dell

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> Dell Inspiron 1100, Debian Sid, PCMCIA Lucent WAVELAN Gold wireless 
> card. When I insert it, I hear the two beeps indicative of a 
> successful card insertion
>
> I'm running 2.6.6-2-686. I've tried running "modconf" to insert the 
> wavelan_cs

Discovered the "wavelan_cs" module to be unnecessary.

> Module                  Size  Used by
> orinoco_cs              9320  1
> orinoco                43884  1 orinoco_cs
> hermes                  8640  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
>
> I have a vague idea of needing to enable wlan0 in 
> /etc/network/interfaces, but that doesn't do me any good.
>
> westk@westkent02:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp

I powered down the laptop; removed the Wavelan card, rebooted. Then ran 
dmesg, inserted the Wavelan, waited for the two beeps, then reran dmesg 
and compared. Now dmesg showed references to the card and to "eth1". So 
I changed the "wlan0" to "eth1", shut down the network,unplugged the 
wired ethernet cable, and then restarted the network 
("/etc/init.d/networking start") and BANG! The wireless network works! 
Whoo-hoo!

--
Kent