Better still, use hostap. It has far more function that the orinoco driver, supports the same (more or less) set of chips (the prism 2/2.5/3 set) and runs using the standard pcmcia support in the recent 2.6 kernels. If you are running with a 2.6 kernel (there are only prebuild modules for 2.4.26) you need the hostap-source package, along with wireless-tools and hostap-utils. Then build the modules you are done.
David On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:16, Marcus Will, FG MUCOSA, +49(431)597-1487 wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > What's been working for me so far: > > - Build your kernel 2.6.8 > - install the pcmcia_cs sources from sf.net > - just run the >configure< of the pcmcia_cs sources > (The 2.6 relies on the pcmcia kernel infrastructure: don't > build anything here.) > - get the wlan-ng sources and build the >prism< modules > > Hope this helps, > > Marcus > > > As far as I understand the documentation, the 2632W should be > > supported > > by the orinoco_cs driver. (It's the old version of the card, of circa > > 2001 or so, not the new Atmel based one.) This driver is built, and I > > can load it with modprobe, but to no further effect. > > > > I'm using the yenta driver for the PCMCIA subsystem itself. > > This driver > > loads ok, according to the boot messages, although I'm not > > entirely sure > > that I have a yenta socket. In my previous (kernel 2.4) > > installation of > > the same laptop, the PCMCIA driver was some "i.....", where > > ... was some > > string of numbers. lspci reports the PCMCIA controller as "CardBus > > bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)". > > > > The yenta driver can't be all wrong, though, because my cardbus > > Tulip-based ethernet card is recognised and loaded properly > > (up to the > > point that I can see the network interface with ifconfig). > > > > I'm thoroughly confused about the whole process of detecting PCMCIA > > cards and loading the appropriate modules in Linux 2.6, and I > > can't find > > any documentation that would explain how to fix my problem. > > > > Can somebody help me out with this? I'd be happy to send you config > > files and debugging output, only I don't know what to put here and I > > don't want to spam the list more than necessary. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Alexander. > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
