Jürg Billeter wrote:

> You're sure that it's the pcmcia card? It doesn't really make sense as
> one pcmcia card is definitively a orinoco according to the module alias.
> Or maybe the built-in card is also connected to the pcmcia bus?

I do believe the builtin card is connected to *a* builtin pcmcia bus.  I
think there are two on this laptop.  I pulled out the PCMCIA card and
the Dell internal wireless card on a PCMCIA buss is still there.  The
D-Link card previously found on the PCI bus is now gone.

> How to connect depends on your network. Unencrypted, WEP, WPA-PSK,
> WPA-EAP,... You should use Wireless Tools 28 for madwifi to get proper
> scanning behaviour. 

Wireless Tools 28?
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html#latest
says the latest stable version is 27.  I found a beta for 28 and I'll
experiment with that.


iwconfig should suffice for manually connecting to
> unencrypted and WEP networks. "iwconfig ath0 essid SSID key WEPKEY" or
> something like that.

To start, I'm working on unencrypted.  I have a small NETGEAR wireless
access point that is still in its default configuration.  I'll try on
the D-Link card that the system recognizes.

> So, the TrueMobile is a PC Card and not built-in? Maybe it needs CIS
> fixes, not sure what else you could need to get that working.
> 
>> Its slightly interesting that the PCMCIA card is in /sys/bus/pci, but
>> the built-in TrueMobile card is in /sys/bus/pcmcia.
> 
> So maybe it's vice versa?

No, as explained above.

I will continue to read about wireless to figure this out.  In a
perverse way, its good that I have two "cards" that are giving me
problems.  It will make BLFS more robust when I add wireless to the book.

  -- Bruce

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