[ltp] HELP: wireless wlan-ng setup problem with T30 on Mandrake 9.0

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What you need to stop all the hassle is Mandrake 9.1, it supports the 
wireless and wired at thesame time.
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>From: Wei Wang <Wei.Wang at cl.cam.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: [ltp] HELP: wireless wlan-ng setup problem with T30 on Mandrake 
>9.0
>Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:30:28 +0000
>
>There have been various reports of successful IBM T30 w/ wlan-ng with
>various distros. (Unfortunately haven't heard a single one on Mandrake 
>yet).
>
>I have Mandrake 9.0 and thinkpad T30 and am trying to make the wireless
>care work with wlan-ng 0.1.16-pre8. I've been at this for a week and
>just couldn't get it to work.
>This is what I've done.
>
>Reconfigure and recompile kernel 2.4.19.(It takes me 50 minutes for the 
>compiling. I don't know what went wrong. But that's another story)
>
>Successful install with "make config", "make all" and "make install"
>I've deleted the broken Mandrake 9.0 built-in prism2 driver.
>
>1 modify /etc/rc.local (this is the rc.local to modify, isn't it? there   
>is another rc.local in /etc/rc.d/
>    #modprobe prism2_pci
>    #wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
>    #wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=<w-107-CB2-3QG> 
>authtype=opensystem
>    #ifconfig wlan0 <yourIP> netmask <yourNetmask> broadcast 
><yourBroadcast> route add default gw <yourGateway>
>
>    I am using DHCP and automatic IP and don't know what to put here in    
><yourIP> and <yourNetmask>, etc.
>2 my resolv.conf reads
>
>nameserver 128.232.1.1
>nameserver 128.232.1.2
>nameserver 128.232.1.3
>search cl.cam.ac.uk
>
>
>3 I didn't try the rc.wlan alternative. I don't know how to do that.
>   Also the only rc.wlan I could find through locate(w/ very recent 
>updatedb)
>   are:
>   home/wei/tarball/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.13/etc/rc.wlan
>   /home/wei/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15/etc/rc.wlan
>   /home/wei/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre8/etc/rc.wlan
>
>
>
>4 wlan.conf:
>	SSID_wlan0="lab"
>	ENABLE_wlan0=y
>
>   wlan.cfg-lab:
>   I don't know how to modify this file. I have a ESSID and a network key 
>but
>   don't know where to put them in this file.
>
>
>I guess that's all I need to do, right?
>
>dmesg after boot gives:
>
>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
>A Prism2.5 PCI device found, phymem:0xf8000000, irq:11, mem:0xf2f20000
>wlan_setup: called without wlandev->name set.
>prism2sta_probe_pci: prism2_pci: wlan_setup() failed.
>init_module: prism2_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
>p80211.o: 0.1.14 Unloaded
>
>If I do modprobe prism2_pci again I get this error message:
>
>/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkhope/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: 
>Operation not permitted
>Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including 
>invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
>	  modprobe: insmod 
>/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkhope/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o 
>failed/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkhope/net/prism2_pci.o: init_module: No such 
>device
>	  Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>	        You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
>			modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkhope/net/prism2_pci.o failed
>			modprobe: insmod prism2_pci failed
>
>And this time dmesg reads:
>Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
>   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
>   ds: no socket drivers loaded!
>   unloading Kernel Card Services
>   init_module: prism2_pci.o: 0.1.16-pre8 Loaded
>   init_module: dev_info is: prism2_pci
>   PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
>   PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
>   PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
>   prism2: Cannot reserve PCI memory region
>   init_module: prism2_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
>   p80211.o: 0.1.14 Unloaded
>
>
>I've been searching google with "wlan_setup: called without wlandev->name 
>set."
>but nothing useful came up.
>Does this have anything to do with what I haven't finished in the 
>configuration above(wlan.cfg-lab and rc.local)?
>
>
>Please help.
>
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Wei Wang
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