[MLB-WIRELESS] Whats happening here?

[Mathew McKernan]

Hi Garreth,

I have a similar issue on a Toshiba Satilite 470CDT but running '98. I believe the PCMCIA slots in laptops this age don't support the type of standard the wireless LAN cards operate on. I am running a Cisco Aironet 350 series PCMCIA card, I have no idea why other than my theory about as to why it doesnt work.

.. Back to the drawing board.

Thanks

Mathew


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Garreth Cain 
  To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au 
  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats happening here?


  Hi Matt,

  I really should have given more information!

  The card is a D-Link DWL-650+
  and my distribution is Debian 3.0 running 2.4.20-1-k6

  The machine does beep when I put it in, if I tail the logs, it even shows me that it is enabling the slot.

  I tailed my /var/log/syslog all it says when I try ifup wlan0 is 'Unknown hardware address' again and again.....

  linux-wlan drivers Im using are 0.2.1-pre3

  I can't think of any other usefull information...

  Regards,

  Garreth
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Matt Boyd 
    To: Garreth Cain 
    Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:47 AM
    Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats happening here?


    what sort of card is it? if its an orinoco clone/type then check modprobe to see if the orinoco modules are loaded.
    when you put the card in, does it beep, they usually do. Check the output of "dmesg" and "tail /var/log messages" to see if the modules are recognised for that card and being loaded.

    More info needed ie what sort of card and which version of linux


    At 09:33 AM 4/5/2003 +1000, you wrote:

      Hi Guys,
       
      I just bought a shiney new PCMCIA Wireless card for my laptop (An old Compaq Presario 1685 with a busted LCD) The theory is that Im going to use it as a Firewall/DSL router since I cant get wires from the phone point to my study (dont ask!)
       
      I have installed the linux-wlan drivers for PCI cards many times, and have run throught the same process with this machine making the respective changes (PCI to PCMCIA for example)
       
      HOWEVER! When I try to ifup wlan0 I get this:
       
      gre0: unknown hardware address 778
      wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device
      gre0: unknown hardware address 778
      Bind socket to interface: No such device
      exiting.
       
      A friend of mine told me that one of hist laptops couldnt run wireless cards beause the interupts were out of the CPUs range... He's currently out the country so I cant ask him if this is the error he was getting...
      My PCMCIA socket is working because I am currently running a Dlink PCMCIA Nic in it to connect to the rest of my network.
       
      Does anyone have any ideas?
      All comments will be appreciated.
       
      Regards,
       
      Garreth
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