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

[Tod Harter]

I don't know about flawless, I've reported several bugs already, but its a 
darn sight better than anything else out there. Just don't try to install on 
a mix of SCSI and IDE hard drives...

On Tuesday 08 April 2003 02:12 am, olusola omosebi wrote:
> What you need to stop all the hassle is Mandrake 9.1, it supports the
> wireless and wired at thesame time.
> It is is hust wonderful, no more power problem, it is Flawless
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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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