Here's some notes I wrote up as I was setting up my IBM Thinkpad T23 (built-in wireless using the Orinoco driver):
Download packages needed/preferred for recompiling a kernel. apt-get install kernel-package bzip2 libncurses5-dev (for make menuconfig) Download the kernel-source and kernel-header packages. apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.21kernel-headers-2.4.21 Extract the kernel source and create a symlink. cd /usr/src bunzip2 -c kernel-source-2.4.21.tar.bz2| tar xvf - ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21 /usr/src/linux Download any kernel-patches. apt-get install <kernel-patch> Download the packages for pcmcia support. apt-get install pcmcia-source pcmcia-cs wireless-tools Extract the pcmcia-source file. This will unpack into the /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs directory. cd /usr/src tar -zxvf pcmcia-source.tar.gz *** OPTIONAL – Install the AirSnort patches to enable monitor mode on the built-in Orinoco wireless card. Install the wget file transfer package. apt-get install wget Download the patches to enable monitoring with the built-in wireless card. cd /usr/src wget http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinoco-0.13b-patched.diff wget http://airsnort.shmoo.com/pcmcia-cs-3.2.1-orinoco-patch.diff Patch the kernel source. cd /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/ patch < /usr/src/orinoco-0.13b-patch.diff Patch the pcmcia-source. cd /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs patch -p0 < /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.2.1-orinoco-patch.diff *** RECOMMENDED – If this is the first time you are compiling a kernel after installing Debian, you can copy the old settings from the woody install. cp /boot/config-2.4.18-fb2.4 /usr/src/linux/.config *** Configure your kernel. cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig / config / xconfig / oldconfig Under 'General setup', make sure 'PCMCIA/CardBus support' is NOT selected. Under 'Network device support', except for the next item below, make sure no PCMCIA network card is selected. Under 'Network device support', 'Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)', select: 'Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)' 'Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)' Clean all the binaries out and prepare to build a new kernel. make-kpkg clean Create the new kernel and pcmcia-module package. make-kpkg –revision=custom.1 kernel_image modules_image Install the new packages. cd /usr/src dpkg -i kernel-image*.deb pcmcia-modules*.deb Install any other modules packages (ie – alsa). Reboot. Hope this helps, Ken On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 01:01, Michael Perry wrote: > Anyone ever gotten one of these working? This card has the dood rising > his arm on it but there is nothing really to rise the arm about when > trying to use it in Linux... :) > > cardctl ident shows it as: > > Socket 0: > product info: "Agere Systems", "Wireless PC Card Model 0111", "", "" > manfid: 0x0156, 0x0003 > function: 6 (network) > > I tried adding this to /etc/pcmcia/config and/or /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf > and the card is mis-identified and the hermes/orinoco drivers do not > load correctly. I get some of this stuff in dmesg: > > Jul 11 21:40:04 speedy kernel: hermes @ IO 0x200: Truncating LTV record > from -2 to 6 bytes. (rid=0xfc01, len=0x0000) > > then finally... > > Jul 11 21:40:04 speedy kernel: eth1: firmware ALLOC bug detected (old > Symbol fir > mware?). Trying to work around... failed! > > Any ideas so I could raise my hand along with the guy on the card? :) > > -- > Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org >
