Hi all,
I'm now completely confused by hotplug, pcmcia-cs, and how on earth to get my
WG511 up automatically by either plugging it in while my laptop is running or
when it is booting if it's already plugged in.
I have successfully gotten my docking station's 3Com card working in this
fashion as well as my Xircom 10/100 + 56K modem.
However, all attempts at getting my Netgear WG511 to load automatically have
failed.
The only way I can get it to go is manually ifconfig eth0 up, then ifconfig
eth0 down, then ifrename to give it the correct logical if name (ethwg5110),
then ifconfig ethwg5110 up followed by iwconfig ethwg5110 essid mode enc and
then, finally dhclient ethwg5110.
Once I do this, it works like a charm.
I have Googled, read the Debian reference, found what I could in
/usr/share/doc, and am now even more confused than I was to begin with...
Anyway, here's what I've done:
Created /etc/iftab and added the following lines (using my real MAC addresses
of course which I've triple checked):
eth3com0 mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
ethxirc0 mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
ethwg5110 mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Edited /etc/network/interfaces and made it look like this (once again I've
triple checked my essid and key are correct):
mapping hotplug
script echo
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth3com0 inet dhcp
iface ethxirc0 inet dhcp
iface ethwg5110 inet dhcp
wireless-essid MY_ESSID
wireless-mode Managed
wireless-channel 11
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX
I've also added the following three lines to the top of my
/etc/modprobe.d/aliases file:
alias eth3com0 3c59x
alias ethxirc0 xirc2ps_cs
alias ethwg5110 prism54
When I boot with my laptop in the docking station, my 3Com card appears as
eth3com0 with a DHCP allocated address.
If I plug in my Xircom card, it appears as ethxirc0 with a DHCP allocated
address.
If I plug in my Netgear WG511 card, the modules prism54 and firmware_class get
loaded, and that's it. If I run iwconfig, it shows up as eth0, not ethwg5110 as
it should do when ifrename has been run.
I also can't seem to find how to enable hotplug logging so I can see what's
going on.
This is all on a Dell Latitude CPi (old but works ok) with Debian Sarge. I try
to keep Sarge as up to date as I can, and I think my last update was only a day
or two ago at the most.
I have the packages "hotplug", "wireless-tools", "ifupdown", "ifrename", and
"pcmcia-cs" installed. I tried removing pcmcia-cs in case it was conflicting or
something, but all that did was stop the Xircom from working.
Does anyone have any pointers where I can go from here?
Pete
