Re: Prism2 Wireless on FC2?

From: Shaun T. Erickson (ste_at_smxy.org)
Date: 05/29/04

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    Dave Ashby wrote:
    > Just upgraded to FC2.
    >
    > Good news: unlike FC1, pcmcia detects my wireless card at boot.
    > "cardctl ident" yields:
    > Socket 0:
    > product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC
    > Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
    > manfid: 0x0274, 0x1612
    > function: 6 (network)
    > Socket 1:
    > no product info available
    >
    > Bad news: wlan0 doesn't find the prism2 driver when I plug in my card.
    > From /var/log/messages:
    > May 29 14:33:05 Sacajawea cardmgr[1487]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs
    > 2>&1'
    > May 29 14:33:05 Sacajawea cardmgr[1487]: + FATAL: Module prism2_cs not
    > found.
    >
    > I thought I recalled some discussion that the orinoco_cs driver should
    > work for this card, but I can't figure out where to change the driver.
    > Changing the "alias wlan0 prism2_cs" line in /etc/modprobe.conf causes
    > my card to no longer be detected at boot (although I don't see any
    > likely errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages).
    >
    > On FC1 I had to use the prism2 rpms from
    > http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/ to get pcmcia + wireless working.
    >
    > Since FC2 seems to have my pcmcia working without any tinkering, I hoped
    > I could get my wireless up by changing some config files.
    >
    > Does anyone know how I can get my wireless up and running?

    I'm on my wireless laptop now, at the patio table in the backyard. :) I
    use an Orinoco gold card. If it helps, here's the ouput of lsmod ...

    [root@dhcppc5 root]# lsmod
    Module Size Used by
    snd_mixer_oss 13824 2
    snd_maestro3 17956 3
    snd_ac97_codec 50436 1 snd_maestro3
    snd_pcm 68872 1 snd_maestro3
    snd_page_alloc 7940 1 snd_pcm
    snd_timer 17156 1 snd_pcm
    snd 38372 7
    snd_mixer_oss,snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
    soundcore 6112 3 snd
    orinoco_cs 6152 1
    orinoco 31500 1 orinoco_cs
    hermes 6528 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
    ds 12292 5 orinoco_cs
    yenta_socket 15104 1
    pcmcia_core 46792 3 orinoco_cs,ds,yenta_socket
    floppy 47440 0
    sg 27552 0
    scsi_mod 91344 1 sg
    microcode 4768 0
    dm_mod 33184 0
    uhci_hcd 23708 0
    button 4504 0
    battery 6924 0
    asus_acpi 8472 0
    ac 3340 0
    ipv6 184288 10
    ext3 102376 2
    jbd 40216 1 ext3
    [root@dhcppc5 root]#

            -ste 

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