trouble with Orinoco PCMCIA -> PCI bridge & Linux

[Nicolas ROBAUX]

Hi !

I have exactly the same problem, and I'm trying to resolve it, just like you.
Is your kernel on your laptop ready for PCMCIA ?
There are many options for the compilation, about PCMCIA, and about PCMCIA 
settings, and these settings are usually set on OFF, on desktop kernels.
You will perhaps have to recompile your kernel.
I just recompiled my Mandrake 2.4.8 kernel yesterday. It still doesn't work 
(the make modules_install ended in a strange way, not with an error, but 
with a test about... the pcmcia directories, and then ended, and the 
/lib/modules/newkernel/pcmcia is still empty), but I have many more things 
to read in the PCMCIA How-to...

And about the module : I read that the correct module is wvlan, not 
wavelan. Wavelan is for older cards.

Let's help together ? ;-)

Nicolas

Le 17/02/2002 à 21:57 +0100, Ben Greear a bien voulu m'écrire :


>Ok, I figured out at least part of the problem:
>
>I had to edit the /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file to make PCMCIA=yes
>and PCIC=i82365
>
>I would have thought RedHat's kudzu would do those things
>for me, but for whatever reason, I had to do it by hand...
>
>Now, the NIC appears...but I'm still working on getting
>it to talk to my laptop....
>
>Ben Greear wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get an Orinoco PCMCIA -> PCI bridge card
> > installed in a linux desktop...
> >
> > I'm currently using kernel 2.4.17-pre6.  lspci shows
> > the card detected, but I'm not sure if it's really
> > being used in any way.  When I plug in the Orinoco
> > silver wireless adapter, nothing happens (no beeps).
> >
> > I manually loaded the wavelan_cs.o module, and it
> > loaded, but did not detect the adapter.
> >
> > This same kernel works on my laptop with the same NIC,
> > so I believe it's the card that is the problem...
> >
> > Has anyone gotten this to work?  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> >
>
>
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