On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 02:50, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2003 01:07, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > If the card was inserted when you loaded the module this could be the
> > explination.  It would do that on mine until I stumbled (yes stumbled)
> > upon a set of lines in my /etc/pcmcia/config file that actually were
> > correct for my card.  IF however it did this and the card isn't
> > inserted.  Then it's time to roll your own on the module.
> >
> > James
> 
> It was inserted. Loading the module isn't what causes the laptop to lockup, 
> it's when I run the "ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.15 up" when it locks hard.
> 
> At the moment I'm taking it slow for now....I just slaughtered (by accident) 
> my home box and the laptop in question has most of the more recent files 
> copied on to it. Don't want to lose the back-ups as well:o(
> 
> BTW, you wrote in an earlier reply:
> 
> >Once done this should be what you need in /etc/pcmcia/config
> >
> >card "realtek", "Rtl8180"
> >   manfid 0x0000, 0x024c
> >   bind "rtl8180_24x"
> 
> I'm confused. Shouldn't rtl8180_24x be defined in the device listings first, 
> before it's usable?


True enough the above is the listing for the card itself.  The device
should look like.

device "rtl8180_24x"
  class "network" module "rtl8180_24x"

So you need both.  One to declare the device in general (the one
imediately above) and one to bind it to your card.  The one I gave
before.    BTW is this card being recognized as wlan0?  Why I'm asking
is that mine is eth0 (the only thing I use 99% of the time) For mine
upon first insert MDK actually created an ifcfg-eth0 for the card and
tried to find a DHCP addy, without my doing anything. (So I just modded
what it created.) Hotplug recognizes the insert right away and tries on
it's own to make it work (and it would have if I wasn't using WEP) 

James

> 
> Good luck,
> HarM
> 
> 
> 
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