[PlanetCCRMA] Installing wireless card

[Joseph Zitt]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 06:23:14 -0800 (PST)
Juan Reyes <juanig at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> You should also edit the file /etc/pcmcia/wlan.conf the SSID entry
> with the name SSID (which I take from your mail is fertile-grounds)
> your wireless network is using. 

I don't have a file of that name, though I do have an
/etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf

Is the format documented anywhere? This file consists of a group of
entries, the first of which is:

device "prism2_cs"
   class "wlan-ng" module "prism2_cs"

...and the rest of which are of the form:

card "NETGEAR MA401RA 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card" \
   version "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P",
"Eval-RevA" \
   bind "prism2_cs"

...all of which talk about cards and none of which appear to mention
SSIDs.

Ah, I see that there is a file unpacked from the tar files named
wlan.conf
I've copied it and am trying to edit it (working from the usual mass of
oblique and contradictory Web pages)...

> Open a new terminal window as root and
> do a tail -f /var/log/messages. If compilation goes fine and after all
> these editing you should restart pcmcia card services by doing a
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart.  Wlan services should start 
> automatically. 

Hmm, this doesn't look good:

Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]: starting, version is 3.1.22
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]: config error, file './wlan-ng.conf'
line 2: no function bindings
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]: config error, file './wlan.conf'
line 57: syntax error
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]: watching 1 sockets
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
0x210-0x217 0x220-0x22f 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]: initializing socket 0
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]: unsupported card in socket 0
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]:   product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA
Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P", "Eval-RevA"
Jan 20 22:37:49 gimel cardmgr[1557]:   manfid: 0x000b, 0x7300  function:
6 (network)


Line 2 in wlan-ng.conf is:

device "prism2_cs"

Line 57 in wlan.conf is:

WLAN_DEVICES="wlan0"

What errors is cardmgr complaining about?

> If so you can check your network status by doing an 
> /sbin/ifconfig. Wlan should appear in one of the entries.

Nope:

[root at gimel pcmcia]# /sbin/ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:700 (700.0 b)  TX bytes:700 (700.0 b)

[root at gimel pcmcia]# 


> Alternatively you can stop pcmcia services and network services and
> restart them to see what is going on.

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