Mandrake 9.2 & PCMCIA (wg511)

From: JiggaHertz (nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/23/03

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:14:52 -0500

    I've been trying to get a wireless netgear pcmcia card (wg511) up on
    mandrake 9.2. I downloaded the ISL3890 drivers and compiled the
    pcmcia-cs-3.2.4-intersil drivers and lsmod shows the following have been
    loaded:

    Module Size Used by Not tainted
    isofs 28180 1 (autoclean)
    nls_iso8859-1 3484 0 (autoclean)
    udf 91840 0 (autoclean)
    islpci_cb 56132 2
    cb_enabler 3760 2 [islpci_cb]
    ds 8692 1 [cb_enabler]
    i82365 49904 1
    pcmcia_core 55168 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]

    I've also installed wireless-tools, iwconfig shows:

    eth1 PRISM Duette Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Bit Rate=0kb/s
              RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B

    and iwlist:

    [root@localhost]# iwlist eth1 frequency
    eth1 0 channels
              Current Frequency:2.472GHz

    [root@localhost]# iwlist eth1 channel
    eth1 17 channels
              Current Frequency:2.412GHz

    However, lspci returns an error:

    [root@localhost]# lspci
    pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/02/00.0
    lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space.
    [root@localhost]#

    The GUI for hardrake shows that eth1 has been recognized, it also has
    under "Unknown/Others" an entry for "D-Links DWL-650 A1" which is not the
    card I'm using. It's properties are:

    Vendor: Harris Semiconductor
    Bus: PCI
    Bus identification: 1260:3890
    Location on the bus: 2:0:0
    Description: D-Links DWL-g650 A1
    Module: unknown
    Media class: NOT_DEFINED

    I would guess this is what's causing the lspci error? Any help you may
    have to get this wg511 up and running would be great.

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