[SLUG] Wireless network card (was January meet date)

[Paul Teasdale]

Jamie Adams wrote:
> 
> The cardbus port doesn't even notice that I put the card in. No
> messages are posted to syslog and a '/sbin/cardctl ident' brings up
> nothing.
> 
OK fair enough. Silly question then but are your PCMCIA drivers 
installed and setup correctly. I know it's stating the obvious but I 
don't think you'll get the card to work if the cardbus port is not setup 
correctly. Do you have any other cards that you can try in the slot such 
as a normal network card? Or temporally borrow one from a friend?

You've probably done this but try typing 'dmesg' and looking for both 
the cardbus port and wifi card being detected.

So for me is see:

'Yenta'... for the PCMCIA slots and
'Atmel'... for the WIFI card

Obviously these will be different for you.

You've looked in syslog but have you tried /var/log/messages also? You 
some times get dianostic information in here.

> I have tried the madwifi drivers. They compile fine, and I can even
> load the modules but no wireless device is created and the modules
> show that they are not being used with 'lsmod'.
>
The modules for my WIFI card load even if the device is not present and 
also show as unsed with 'lsmod' so there's nothing strange here I don't 
think.

> I havn't really had the time to fiddle with it much, but I am pretty
> desperate to get it to work. I'll keep trying, but if anyone has any
> advice, let me know.
> 
Your card does seem to be initially appear to be supported by the 
MADWifi drivers but what does the + mean on the end of the model? Is 
this some proprietary turbo mode.

The MADWifi drivers are only beta also it seems with quite a lot of 
missing or broken functionality such as broken adhoc mode.

I know that most of this has stated the obvious but I hope it helps.

Regards,

Paul.