Re: Problems with Wireless pcmcia card

hartr_at_interweft.com.au
Date: 08/21/03

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 01:11:03 +1000 (EST)

    On 20 Aug, Jason Dixon wrote:
    > Once you download/build them, simply install the kernel-wlan-ng,
    > kernel-wlan-ng-pcmcia, and kernel-wlan-ng-modules packages. Reboot, and
    > you should be good to go. You might want to edit the
    > /etc/wlan/wlan.conf to suit your needs, although I've found it can
    > auto-join to many IBSS (no WEP enabled) networks.

    Tks for this. I am having some problems still though.

    I have the following kernel rpms installed on RH Linux 8

    kernel-wlan-ng-modules-rh80.20.18-0.2.0-7
    kernel-utils-2.4-8.13
    kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9
    kernel-2.4.20-18.8
    kernel-wlan-ng-pcmcia-0.2.0-7
    kernel-wlan-ng-0.2.0-7

    When I grep for cardmgr in /var/log/messages, I get

    Aug 22 00:07:16 bree pcmcia: cardmgr.
    Aug 22 00:07:17 bree cardmgr[759]: starting, version is 3.1.31
    Aug 22 00:07:17 bree cardmgr[759]: config error, file 'config' line 1053: syntax error
    Aug 22 00:07:17 bree cardmgr[759]: config error, file 'config' line 2129: no function bindings
    Aug 22 00:07:17 bree cardmgr[759]: watching 2 sockets
    Aug 22 00:07:17 bree cardmgr[759]: Card Services release does not match

    The two lines causing problems are

            card "11 Mbps Wireless PC Card"
    1053 manfid: 0x028a, 0x0002
              bind "orinoco_cs"

    and

    2129 card "Zonet ZEN1200 CardBus Fast Ethernet PC Card"
              manfid 0x0000, 0x024C
              bind "8139too"

    but I have the feeling that the real problem is the 'card services
    release does not match' issue. Unfortunatley, I am no hardware guru and
    I have no idea what this means.

    I also get during the boot, sometimes, the message 'can't locatate
    block-major-2' ... but this happens only intermittently.
     

    I rather think that this may be the cause of another problem I am having
    - that of serious instability with my mouse in X windows. Sometimes it
    locks up completely and other times the left button seems not to work.
    When it locks in X, it also stops working on the console...and stopping
    and restarting gpm does not revive it.

    Looking at /proc/interrupts shows

              CPU0
      0: 1500112 XT-PIC timer
      1: 6697 XT-PIC keyboard
      2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
      5: 102120 XT-PIC usb-ohci, eth0
      8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
      9: 23 XT-PIC ehci-hcd, EMU10K1
     10: 5444 XT-PIC advansys, usb-ohci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci
     11: 1 XT-PIC ohci1394
     12: 89382 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
     14: 20604 XT-PIC ide0
     15: 4150 XT-PIC ide1

    which looks fine though.

    This is a brand new Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop and the mouse works just
    fine in 'that other OS'... 

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Robert Hart					 hartr@interweft.com.au
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