Upon further research, I think your D-link card uses the same Intersil Prism 2 chip that my SMC card does. If that is the case, the 2.2.18 kernel is using the wvlan driver that is part of the pcmcia-cs source package, but not in the kernel pcmcia. You have two choices: you can compile your kernel without pcmcia support, then compile the drivers from the pcmcia-cs package and get the wvlan driver (which will complain that its the wrong driver but still works), or, you can get this driver that is the correct driver and it will work with the pcmcia-cs package drivers and I think it will compile with the kernel drivers as well:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/ On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 17:14, Kent Pirkle wrote: > Which driver does the 2.2.18pre21 kernel load for your network card? > > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 05:20, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: > > > > Dear Debian Friends! > > > > I tried various installations of Woody from a set of CDs which where > > created > > around Nov 9, and found some problems, I would like to report in this > > manner. > > > > The machine was an Inspiron-5000 Laptop, with a D-link-650 PCMCIA network > > card > > (compatible to NE2000). > > > > None of the Woody kernels I've tried recognised my network card, so I ended > > up > > with the network unconfigured after install. After playing unsuccessfully > > with > > the network setup, I tried recompiling a 2.2.19 kernel with PCMCIA support > > and > > also a 2.4.10 kernel (with its own PCMCIA support) - with no more success. > > > > Then I tried an install from scratch with a Potato-2.2R2 CD (kernel > > 2.2.18pre21) and it did recognise the D-link-650 network card fine, and > > configured the network right! > > > > Upgrading to woody did not change anything, the network still worked fine, > > until I tried to upgrade the kernel too. I tried kernel packages 2.2.19 > > (vanilla), 2.2.19-???-ext3, 2.4.10-???-686, 2.4.12 (vanilla), installing > > them > > with dselect. None of these kernels supported my PCMCIA based network card. > > > > When I re-installed the old 2.2.18pre21 kernel, everything worked fine > > again. > > Perhaps I missed something, but I would say, the newer kernels (including > > 2.2.19) have a broken module there somewhere in the pcmcia stuff. > > > > - Josef > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
