Suse9.3: Siemens PCCard11 works, but I need help

From: Leonhard Vogt (leonhard.vogt_at_gmx.ch)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:06:09 +0200

I have got a Siemens Gigaset PCCard11 Wireless LAN.
I have made it working, but need to do things manually
such as loading the correct firmware.
Could you point me to the config files I need to change?
I am using Suse 9.3

What I have done:
added the following lines to /etc/pcmcia/atmel.conf
card "IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN Card S"
  manfid 0x0000, 0x0000
  bind "atmel_cs"

this creates an eth1 interface with wireless extensions
once the card is plugged. In order to make it finally work
I do the following:

ifdown eth0 # I don't need this interface
ifdown eth1
atmel_fwl /lib/firmware/atmel_at76c504_2958-wpa.bin
iwconfig eth1 essid foo
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
iwconfig eth1 channel 6
ifup eth1

then dhcpd changes /etc/resolv.conv with a bad nameserver
(i.e a very slow one - is this an IPv6 issue?)

so i change it back to contain the only line
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Leonhard

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