[SWLUG] wireless card

[Julian Hall]

Dick Bain wrote:

> I have been given a Sitecom card by my son, his new laptop has 
> wireless built in, but neither mepis nor ubuntu pick it up!


Hi Dick,

Before you bin the card make sure lspci will see it.  After the hassles 
I had getting mine to work I'd lay odds that the PCMCIA controller isn't 
set-up properly by Linux.  By some accounts (and my own experience) it 
isn't by default in 2.6.x kernels.  It's no doubt a Cardbus card and the 
memory addresses for those are not configured in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts 
, you have to set them yourself.

Check this url, http://www1.uop.edu/~khughes/presario-r3120us/#pcmcia 
and see if it correlates with your problem.  BTW what card is it?  Are 
you using MADWifi or NDISWrapper to run it?

Kind regards,

Julian