Okay, here comes round 1 questions. This is pretty basic and boring stuff so if you don't feel inclined to respond, not to mention read this stuff, then delete at will ;0)
I have listed below stuff I have found out, and *think* I know to be the case. I'm reading about kernel building and module management, but I cannot tell how much of what I need has SuSE already done for me, so my troubleshooting is limited to the points below. How do I detect what is already built into the kernel? Maybe this is why people rebuild their kernels, so they know what is in there... a) I'm trying to get my Orinoco Gold card working under Linux, with my already established cable modem connexion and wireless router/NAT firewall (all works great under MacOS). Maybe I should first plug the cable modem directly into the computer first, and get that working. Then worry about the PC card? b) my system is SuSE 7.3 (2.4.12) for PPC on a Macintosh PowerBook from 1999 which is fully supported by SuSE c) I installed the PCMCIA package from the distro CD using YAST, and my printed documentation says there are supposed to be 3 drivers in the package as long as they are not already integrated into the kernel; pcmcia_core, i82365, and ds. The last two I found under /usr/src where they are both appended with .c, but the only thing I find for pcmcia_core is /usr/share/man/man4/pcmcia_core.4.gz I don't know what this means, but it suggests to me that some things are still not installed. d) $cardmgr returns the following: modpath = (null) modsubdir = (null) e) /etc/rc.config is supposed to have these (uncommented) entries: START_PCMCIA = yes (I found this one) and also PCMCIA = i82365 (I did not find this entry even after searching for those terms using the pico text editor. Info from sourceforge seems to suggest that linux kernels 2.4.10 and later have built in support for my card, so maybe some of this is already built into the kernel? ( I decided to insert and IP address for IPADDR _1 which is my eth1 PCMCIA, set up for DHCP. I used the same address I configured for MacOS: 192.168.0.1. But eth1 is still 'off' and SuSE's YAST doesn't seem to allow me to turn it 'on' directly. f) I downloaded from sourceforge the absolute latest driver for the Orinoco card (v 0.11) and I unpacked it but I don't think I have actually _installed_ anything from that tiny driver package because its possible the functions I need are already in the kernel (?) g) Separate issue: I noticed that some inetd services are turned on (time,telnet,login,talk,ntalk,finger). Should I turn these off? h) /etc/pcmcia/config.opts seems to be the key config file. I just don't know what to do with it :0) i) I found the directory /lib/modules/2.4.12/pcmcia but it is empty. Would the actual driver be in here if it is set up as a loadable module? I think the actual driver is supposed to be named orinoco_cs.o but I cannot find this file or where I am supposed to put it. j) the README.orinoco file for the very recent orinoco-0.11 driver from sourceforge says somthing about I need to "bind each card to the 'orinoco_cs' device." I do not know what this means. Thanks for reading this far! --Michael ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
