>>>>> "Grahame" == Grahame Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Grahame> Hi. Sluggers I am back on the list. Its been a couple of Grahame> years but the return is sweet - I am even coming to the Nov Grahame> SLUG meeting - missed the dinner and conversations ;-) Grahame> Probably with a couple of other old sluggers to retest the Grahame> waters. Welcome back, Grahame... Grahame> I am trying to get a wireless pcmcia card and wireless PCI Grahame> cards to operate correctly with a D-Link Access Point Grahame> (DWL-900AP+). The situation is my neighbour has got these Grahame> cards as he wishes to go the Linux way... so I really want to Grahame> sort this out for him on my home system (which is working, Grahame> stable and a good test platform) before I go over to his Grahame> place to show him the "wonders of Linux". OK. Which kernel are you running? I've had no problem with the latest Debian cardutils and the D-Link DWL650 PCMCIA cards using the standard hermes driver in 2.4.19 and 2.5 46. I'm using a pci->pcmcia adapter on my workstation, and ad-hoc mode (I have only four machines on the wireless network, so an access point looked like expensive overkill) But the laptops work fine at work where they're using netware access points, and in the Uni library (don't know what access points are being used there) Grahame> All the cards and his D-Link AP have written on the boxes Grahame> that "Linux is supported" (hence his purchases). He has a Grahame> laptop, 3 pci cards in standalone Linux boxes with one system Grahame> supporting ip-masquarding. Cabling his home is a problem Grahame> hence the wireless option taken and as I have been on him Grahame> many years to go Linux I don't want to say - can't be done Grahame> now ;-( Grahame> Following the Linux installion details (on CD) that came with Grahame> the cards I have upgraded laptop to PCMCIA to 3.2.3 and Grahame> compiled & installed the prism2_cs modules.Of course I Grahame> modified the /etc/pcmcia/wireless config to suit the correct Grahame> SSID and channel (as set up my the Access Point). No problem Grahame> with the AP as its http addressable. Shouldn't need to set the channel -- the access point in managed mode will set that for you. Grahame> Unfortuantely I still get the following /var/log/message Grahame> errors on the PCMCIA card install. It looks to me like a mismatch between the prism2 module and the kernel (but could be something else entirely) The DWL650 here uses the orinoco driver that comes in the kernel. Try that! Pet C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
