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

Juan Pablo Martinez Sanchez is04796 at salleURL.edu
Wed Apr 9 12:09:48 CEST 2003 

Hello, I am also configuring a pcmcia wireless card on my thinkpad 600x. I
have an error but i think I know why. The card is a Belkin F5D6020 ver.2.
The operating system i'm using is LFS (kernel 2.4.18).

The first thing i made was to find the client driver that supports the
card: pcmcia-cs. Then i rcompiled the kernel without PCMCIA SUPPORT and
compiled and installed pcmcia-cs modules (one of the modules gives pcmcia
support).

The next thing i made was to obtain the manfid of the card by: 'cardctl
ident' or 'dump_cis, and in /etc/pcmcia/config to set an entry like this:

      card "Belkin"
         #version "", ""
         manfid 0x1234, 0x1234
         bind "orinoco_cs"

And then restart pcmcia driver by '/etc/pcmcia/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia reload


The cardmgr is correctly loaded and also the orinoco_cs client driver is
loaded, but this driver is not capable to initialize the card.


I have concluded that the card i am using is F5D6020 ver.2 and not
F5D6020. The ver.2 uses another chipset not prism2 and then the orinoco_cs
client driver is not useful in my case. I have to look for another client
driver or change my card by another...(i think it will be faster the
second option).

Bye All.




On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Tod Harter wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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