Hi. Sluggers I am back on the list. Its been a couple of years but the return is sweet - I am even coming to the Nov SLUG meeting - missed the dinner and conversations ;-) Probably with a couple of other old sluggers to retest the waters.
I am trying to get a wireless pcmcia card and wireless PCI cards to operate correctly with a D-Link Access Point (DWL-900AP+). The situation is my neighbour has got these cards as he wishes to go the Linux way... so I really want to sort this out for him on my home system (which is working, stable and a good test platform) before I go over to his place to show him the "wonders of Linux". All the cards and his D-Link AP have written on the boxes that "Linux is supported" (hence his purchases). He has a laptop, 3 pci cards in standalone Linux boxes with one system supporting ip-masquarding. Cabling his home is a problem hence the wireless option taken and as I have been on him many years to go Linux I don't want to say - can't be done now ;-( Following the Linux installion details (on CD) that came with the cards I have upgraded laptop to PCMCIA to 3.2.3 and compiled & installed the prism2_cs modules.Of course I modified the /etc/pcmcia/wireless config to suit the correct SSID and channel (as set up my the Access Point). No problem with the AP as its http addressable. Unfortuantely I still get the following /var/log/message errors on the PCMCIA card install. Can anyone suggest a fix ? I am running 24.19 kernel (SuSE 8.0 Distribution). millie -- MARK -- millie cardmgr[219]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 Reference Design 11Mb/s WLAN Card millie cardmgr[219]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs' millie kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.10 Loaded millie kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs millie kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f millie kernel: prism2sta_initmac: Failed, result=-61 millie kernel: prism2sta_event: MAC Initialization failed. result=-61 (Laptop hangs where until I remove the PCMCIA Wireless card then ...) millie cardmgr[219]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0' millie kernel: hfa384x_docmd_wait: hfa384x_cmd timeout(1), reg=0xffff. millie kernel: hfa384x_docmd_wait: hfa384x_cmd timeout(1), reg=0xffff. millie cardmgr[219]: executing: './wlan-ng stop wlan0' millie cardmgr[219]: executing: 'modprobe -r prism2_cs' millie kernel: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.10 Unloaded millie kernel: p80211.o: 0.1.10 Unloaded On the PCI machines, I am able to successfully : "modprobe prism2_pci" to load correctly along with 802_11 module. "wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=default authtype=opensystem" "ifconfig wlan0 10.10.10.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.10.10.255" "route add default gw 10.10.10.100" all respond with any errors or conerns on 2> or in syslog. But, unfortunately on a ping 10.10.10.100 I get network unreachable errors. I have probably got some setup wrong! Anyone assist an aging Old Slugger. Thanks. Grahame. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
