[TriLUG] PCMCIA Linksys Wireless Card

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 14:41, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> Hey I'm trying to get this Linysys WPC11 wireless NIC to work and I'm 
> having some trouble getting to show up when I run ifconfig -a.  I've 
> downloaded and installed the linux-wlan drivers, but I still cannot get 
> the card to show up after running modprobe -a prism*  (I think the 
> driver is prism2_cs).  Any ideas how I can get this going?  When I 
> restart cardmgr I get the first beep which is the happy one, then the 
> second one isn't the happy one (deeper tone).


I don't know if this will help, but I have two cheap-o Addtron cards
with the Prism2 chipset and a Netgear MA-401 (also prism2-based, like
the WPC11).  All three of the cards work just fine out-of-the-box with a
Red Hat v7.2 install on my laptop.  To be fair, I have applied all of
the RH-supplied updates but no further modifications.

Included below is an lsmod output which shows that the cards use the
older "wvlan_cs" module.  Perhaps that will help you folks?

good luck,
Ed


[XXX at YYY]$ rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-10
kernel-source-2.4.9-21
kernel-doc-2.4.9-21
kernel-2.4.9-21
kernel-headers-2.4.9-21

[XXX at YYY]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
wvlan_cs               23264   1
cs46xx                 55144   0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec              9504   0 (autoclean) [cs46xx]
soundcore               4452   3 (autoclean) [cs46xx]
r128                   87192   1
agpgart                27456   3
tulip                  39328   0
ds                      7040   2 [wvlan_cs]
yenta_socket            9536   2
pcmcia_core            41632   0 [wvlan_cs ds yenta_socket]
autofs                 11556   0 (autoclean) (unused)
appletalk              20908   0 (autoclean)
ipx                    16404   0 (autoclean)
ipchains               39592   2
ide-scsi                8288   0
scsi_mod               98616   1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 27072   0
cdrom                  28576   0 [ide-cd]
usb-uhci               21668   0 (unused)
usbcore                51808   1 [usb-uhci]
ext3                   62592   3


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