all one has to do to get the wavelan card working with mandrake 7.2 is to add
eth=1 to the opts in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.
The problem is that setting up networking with linuxconf or draknet
associates the device eth0 with wvaln_cs in /etc/modules.conf when wvlan_cs
actually brings up the device as wvlan0. So by setting eth=1 in config.opts
it brings up your wireless card as ethX and everything is fine.
On Thursday 22 February 2001 21:28, you wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> FYI (and for the archives), I received the following advice from the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] list:
>
> On 2/23/01 10:22 AM, "Anthony Wesley" <awesley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The exact values depends a bit on what version of the pcmcia package you
> > have. I am not familiar with Mandrake, but the first thing you ought to
> > do is try to grab pcmcia-3.1.23.
> >
> > I found that 3.1.20 worked ok on older kernels (2.2.14) but would not
> > compile on newer kernels.
> >
> > 3.1.21 and 3.1.22 had bugs that prevented the Orinoco cards from working
> > without a patch. The patch is pretty simple - basically David Hinds (the
> > maintainer for pcmcia-cs) tried to introduce parameter checking, but got
> > it a bit wrong so that the softwarerefused to configure the cards even
> > though the cards were capable of taking the configuration commands.
> >
> > 3.1.23 works ok with my current kernel (2.2.18).
>
> Anthony was quite right about the pcmcia-cs package. pcmcia-cs-3.1.24 from
> sourceforge works a treat.
>
> FWIW, I have the client correctly using an Apple AirPort base station for
> bridging to my LAN and the net.
--
Jason Straight
