Brian Meredyk wrote: > I'm running mandrake 9 beta 3 and can't get my linksys Instant Wireless > Internet PC Card (v3) working.
I'm trying to do this at the moment, too. Beta3 has version 3.1.31 of the pcmcia package, which doesn't support the Linksys WPC11. I downloaded 3.2.0 from http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net last night, but I haven't gotten it to install correctly yet. There has always been overlap between this package and the kernel pcmcia support. The docs with the package have always implied that the kernel stuff is a generation behind (kind of like GNU Ghostscript), and the trick was to turn enough pcmcia on in the kernel to wake it up, but not enough to get it to generate the same modules that the package generates, specifically the drivers. I haven't found the magic balance for 3.2 yet. It now detects that you asked for PCMCIA in the kernel, and decides that you don't need it to generate any drivers. The configuration script has a --force option that will force driver generation, though According to syslog, cardbus is starting correctly and recognizes both the WPC11 and the generic modem card I have, but if I try to manually insmod hermes.o, orinoco.o, and orinoco_cs.o, I'm told by orinoco_cs that the card services release does not match. I'm about to look into this, but I assume at this point that MDK put the card services utilities someplace earlier in the path than the pcmcia-cs package did and that I'm picking up the old utilities.
