On Don, 2006-03-30 at 23:27 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I have downloaded wireless-tools, sysfsutils, and pcmciautls and > installed them. Here are some of the issues I've solved: > > wireless-tools needs a patch to compile with gcc-4. I was able to make > the required changes and fixed the warnings while I was at it.
FYI: Wireless Tools 28 betas work fine with gcc 4/4.1 and are necessary for WPA networks, iirc. At least Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Suse use one of the beta versions. > 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 > 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Hm, that looks like you need the madwifi driver[1], that's the built-in card, I assume. > But returning > FATAL: Module > pcmcia:m0156c0002f06fn00pfn00paD726CF79pbCE1172FBpcD27DEB1Apd00000000 > not found. That looks like you didn't build the orinoco_cs module with your kernel. BTW: I've never used pcmciautils without udev but looking at the hotplug directory of pcmciautils, it should work just fine. HTH, Jürg [1] http://www.madwifi.org : use madwifi-ng snapshots -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
