Re: Mandrake 9.2 & PCMCIA (wg511)

From: JiggaHertz (nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:40:49 -0500

dhinds@sonic.net wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.portable JiggaHertz <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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:
>
> ...
>
>> 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.
>
> This is a limitation of the pcmcia-cs drivers on 2.4 kernels. It is,
> in itself, essentially harmless, other than messing up 'lspci'.
>
>> 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.
>
> Often, the same wireless card is sold by multiple vendors who just put
> on their own stickers. So I don't think this is a problem either.
>
> So, these specific things you've noted, as far as I can tell, do not
> indicate that anything is wrong.
>
> -- Dave

I'm not able to ping my router so I've tried the following:

[root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 ap any
Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Bad address.

[root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 frequency 2.4G
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

[root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 ap any
Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Bad address.

[root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 commit
Error for wireless request "Commit changes" (8B00) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

It looks like it's operating at the correct freq and channel though... as my
router is at 2.4GHz and on Channel 01.
[root@coredump ~]# iwlist eth1 frequency
eth1 47772 channels in total; available frequencies :
          Channel 245 : -0 kHz
          Channel 198 : 0 kHz
          Channel 245 : -0 kHz
          Channel 00 : inf GHz
          Channel 00 : -1.07268e+07 kHz
          Channel 00 : 1.9e+11 GHz
                ... (whole bunch of numbers from 0 to inf)
          Current Frequency:2.412GHz (channel 01)

I thought these errors were caused by recognizing the wrong card, but I
guess not? This is what ifconfig looks like:

[root@coredump ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:XX:XX:XX:00:00
          inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:528764 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:455973 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:604949350 (576.9 Mb) TX bytes:33913756 (32.3 Mb)
          Interrupt:11
 
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:5A:22:00:00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:11067 (10.8 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 Memory:cc983000-cc985000
 
eth1:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:5A:22:00:00
          inet addr:192.168.0.9 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:0.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 Memory:cc983000-cc985000

 
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:167193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:167193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:144114674 (137.4 Mb) TX bytes:144114674 (137.4 Mb)
 
Thanks for your help.
-J

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