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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Garreth,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>.. Back to the drawing board.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mathew</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=gcain@websolutions.nu href="mailto:gcain@websolutions.nu">Garreth
Cain</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=melbwireless@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:melbwireless@wireless.org.au">melbwireless@wireless.org.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:59 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats
happening here?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Matt,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I really should have given more
information!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The card is a D-Link DWL-650+</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and my distribution is Debian 3.0 running
2.4.20-1-k6</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The machine does beep when I put it in, if I tail
the logs, it even shows me that it is enabling the slot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tailed my /var/log/syslog all it says when I
try ifup wlan0 is 'Unknown hardware address' again and again.....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>linux-wlan drivers Im using are
0.2.1-pre3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can't think of any other usefull
information...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Garreth</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fatboy@zip.com.au href="mailto:fatboy@zip.com.au">Matt Boyd</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=gcain@websolutions.nu
href="mailto:gcain@websolutions.nu">Garreth Cain</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:47
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats
happening here?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>what sort of card is it? if its an orinoco clone/type then
check modprobe to see if the orinoco modules are loaded.<BR>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.<BR><BR>More info needed ie what sort of card and which
version of linux<BR><BR><BR>At 09:33 AM 4/5/2003 +1000, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial size=2>Hi
Guys,</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>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!)</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>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)</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>HOWEVER!
When I try to ifup wlan0 I get this:</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>gre0: unknown hardware address 778</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such
device</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial size=2>gre0: unknown hardware address
778</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Bind socket to interface: No such
device</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>exiting.</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>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...</FONT><BR><FONT
face=arial size=2>My PCMCIA socket is working because I am currently
running a Dlink PCMCIA Nic in it to connect to the rest of my
network.</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Does anyone have any
ideas?</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial size=2>All comments will be
appreciated.</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>Regards,</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>Garreth</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>