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PCMCIA Wireless Adapter Problems
  • SlylockSlylock July 2010
    I have Slitaz 3.0 running on an IBM Thinkpad 390X w/ 256MB RAM. I can't get the wireless PCMCIA card to load. I followed the steps in the post below on this subject, but when I got here I had different results:

    don't worry :-)
    reboot, modprobe pcnet_cs, and post the output of following commands:

    dmesg | tail -30

    (this will give you the last 30 lines of dmesg http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?dmesg+8 )

    I can't figure out how to copy and paste from xterm, but the last 2 lines are:

    "pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 pcmcia 0.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0"

    cat /proc/net/dev

    this will show you network intefaces even if they are not configured

    this gives: Inter-| Receive |Transmit 0000000000000000

    or similar. I guess this is because to "lo" interface is selected?



    To summarize, I don't see Eth0 or Eth1 listed anywhere, so I don't know how to proceed.
  • SlylockSlylock July 2010
    OK, I looked at this article:

    http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/howto.html

    lspci tells me:

    00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251B
    00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251B

    Do I need a resource database? How do I do about building one? This computer has no network besides PCMCIA wireless, so it would have to be something I could load onto a flash drive.
  • SlylockSlylock July 2010
    I don't know if I am getting anywhere, but now when I run:

    dmesg | tail -30

    the last 2 lines are:

    "pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0xa00000000-0xa0fffffff: clean. pcmcia 0.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0"
  • SlylockSlylock July 2010
    The wireless card is a Senao Networks card Based on high performance AGERE chip
    Automatic data rate scaling at 11, 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps
    Optimized throughput, range and connectivity
    IEEE 802.11b compliant
    Fully interoperable with IEEE802.11b compliant devices
    Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption and decryption support
    Powerful data security at 64 and 128 bits

    I know it works on Linux because I installed Debian with the text installer The installer loaded the NIC firmware, then brought up the network and configured apt. However, when I started an X session, the network card was not seen.
  • SlylockSlylock July 2010
    Turns out I just needed to add "orinoco_cs" to the variable LOAD_MODULES in /etc/rcS.conf
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