Here is a quick update on the Prism 2 chipset with mandrake 9.0 Thanks to Jerry to point me to the prism2_utils package. The Wireless card is now up and running with 128 bit WEP out of the box (sort of). I installed the rpm and modified the wlan-ng.opts file under /etc/pcmcia to enable wep and put my 128 bit key in key0. I had to create ifcfg-wlan0 file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ with the usual networking parameters Started wlan service and restarted the pcmcia service bingo got a ip from the Access point. Able to use my wireless card.
Thanks for all your help. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jerry A! Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] WLAN -Pism2 Chipset-Mandrake9-config question. : On 2002-11-19 Bharath Sankaranarayan said: : : card,DWL-650 wireless card based on Prism2 chipset on pcmcia) with Grub : : I installed a workstation with a few additions to the standard install : and did the update towards the end of the installation. Now I would : like to have my DWL-650 wireless card working. The machine has a built : in e100 and it was properly detected. wvlan_cs should be a viable driver for the DWL-650. Actually, so should orinoco_cs and prism2_cs. I'm cc'ing this to cooker b/c I'd like to start a discussion about updating /etc/pcmcia/config or creating a /etc/pcmcia/orinoco.conf. While the wvlan_cs driver works, I thought that it was deprecated in favor of orinoco_cs (which is actively supported) for Hermes-based cards. : So I went to the folder called /3rdparty and found that there were : precompiled versions of prism2_cs driver which is what my card uses. I : modified the /etc/pcmcia/config file to change the driver for the : Intersil Prisim II to read prism2_cs instead of wlan_cs. Also I added on : my /etc/modules.conf alias wlan0 prism2_cs I rebooted and my card beeped : 2times like before and then I got a steady green light Upon lsmod I : found that prism2_cs was loaded and so was p80211 and ds and : yenta_socket. The prism2_cs driver doesn't implement all the kernel wireless extensions. Thus you will not be able to use iwconfig(1) for configuration. Please grab the prism2-utils package from contrib. The prism2_* drivers require wlan-ctl(1) for configuration. Another solution might be checking out the prism2 hostap driver at <http://hostap.epitest.fi/>. It supports the prism2_cs stuff, as well as providing hostap mode. Oh, and it does have the current wireless extensions so you can use iwconfig(1). Who's ear could a I put a bug into for evaluating this driver for kernel-2.4.19-20mdk? Hope you find this helpful. And for everyone on the cooker list, sorry for the cross-post but this seems like a good way to kill two birds with one stone. --Jerry
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