Andy, Worked like a charm. There was an entry with my manfid in /etc/pcmcia/config and the bound driver was wvlan_cs; I switched it to orinoco_cs and, taking the cheesy way of rebooting, the network came up with the orinoco driver! Now I need to see if I can get wep working! Thanks, I love learning new tricks. Wes On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 23:20, Andy Stewart wrote:
Hi Wes,
I discovered on my laptop that I had to insure that my wireless card was listed in /etc/pcmcia/config or things didn't work. (Although I use SuSE 8.0, I believe the description below is distribution agnostic).
Try this as root:
# cardctl ident
Note the "manfid" line. Next, check /etc/pcmcia/config and see if a card with an entry matching the manfid is present. In my case, there was no entry so I added one thus:
card "Andy's Linksys Wireless" manfid 0x0274, 0x1613 bind "orinoco_cs"
The card string seems to be arbitrary text. The manfid comes from "cardctl ident", and the bind is to a kernel module. I have hotplugging services running, so when I plug in my wireless adapter, it automagically loads the kernel module(s), starts the net, sets up routing, etc.
Give it a try and let us know how it goes!
Later,
Andy
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