As a follow up to my own post: I do know that the hardware is good. It works fine with OZ installed on the device.
Thank you. > Hi, > > My first mail to the list. > > I am trying to setup wireless (WEP based) networking using a > Linksys WCF11 card. Something is wrong and I am not seeing a wlan0 > interface come up. > > And let me qualify this by saying I have read the both the FAQ and > the manual. And will, if I determine the problem and the solution > add them to the Wiki. I do have the wifi tools installed (iwconfig > and the like). > > My hardware: > > Zaurus 3100c > Linksys WCF11 Wireless CF Card > > I carefully followed the installation instructions from the Wiki. > (did it twice just to be sure it wasn't something I skipped). > > When I plug in the card and do a "ifconfig -a" it doesn't show an > interface for wlan0. > > So I did an lsmod, and hostap_cs wasn't there so I did a "modprobe > hostap_cs" followed by an "lsmod", relevant output is: > > hostap_cs 55700 0 > hostap 108612 1 hostap_cs > ieee80211_crypt 4864 1 hostap > > At this point I pulled and reinserted the card, checking dmesg > after I did so: > > <7>ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' > <6>hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) <5>pccard: > card ejected from slot 1 <5>pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot > 1 <5>pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 > > Still no wlan0 interface. > > So obviously I am missing something. A few web searches turned up > some clues. I've tried the following: > > I ran "pccardctl ident" and got this output: > [------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- Socket 1: > product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Wireless Network CF > Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA" manfid: 0x0274, 0x3301 function: 6 > (network) > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------] > > Created a file named /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf which contains (I > tried this with and without the version line): > > [---------------------------- /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf ----------- > ------------------------------ > card "Linksys WCF11" > version "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Wireless Network CF Card", > "ISL37300P", "RevA" manfid 0x0274, 0x3301 bind "hostap_cs" -------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------] > > Rebooted, still no wlan0 - hmmm > > I tried setting up a /etc/modutils/hostap_cs.conf file as well and > doing an "update-modules": > > I tried several things here, none of which were acceptable to > update-modules. > > I went ahead and pre-setup my /etc/network/interfaces file as shown > (note the key is garbled): > > [---------------------------- /etc/network/interfaces -------------- > ---------------- # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file > for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless_mode managed > wireless_essid TBAYNEWIFI > wireless_key AAAD4D2AAAAAAA1865AAAAAE > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------] > > So while I am sure I am doing something wrong, I have no idea what > it might be. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro- > users _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
