Re: pcmcia wavlan card support?

Tom Oehser <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:06:33 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tomsrtbt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm not really sure in this case, you may have a problem with the
pcmcia.conf, or the controller itself (not the card) may need other
modules, or the wavelan modules I have may not be new enough.  -Tom

> 	I tried to use tomsrtbt on dell inspiron 3500 with a lucent
> 	technologies wavelan pcmcia card,  the model is "PC24E-H-FC",
> 	I used the wavelan_cs.o and wavlan_cs.o from the add-on directory,
> 	the way I did this is:
>
> 	boot tombsrtbt,
> 	cp an existing wavelan2_cs.conf from another running machine
> 	to the laptop /etc/pcmcia/ (by using a floppy)
>
> 	copy the wavelan_cs.o wavlan_cs.o from floppy, put them in
> 	/lib/modules,
>
> 	killall cardmgr
>
> 	cardmgr
>
> 	then cardmgr says :
> 	cardmgr[105]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Try again
>
> 	I tried both wavelan_cs.o and wavlan_cs.o,
>
> 	same case, I don't know to use the modules, do I have to actually
> 	recompile the kernel and set it to "M"??
> 	if so, how can I do it? ( seems like reinventing the whole thing
> 	from scratch since I'm using libc6 )
>
>
> 	Thanks a lot!
>
> 	Yang
>