Re: Wifi card not working - Any ideas?

Well actually, I contacted belkin, and they said the proper drivers are not 
the orinoco_cs, but instead the atmel drivers. Also googling for information 
on this card produced the same results. Btw, the orinoco_cs driver wont work 
at all, that is why I tried to find an alternative.

Updating the kernel? Well, I am a total linux noob. You recommend upgrading 
the kernel?


>From: "David Gibbons" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group" <[email protected]>
>To: "PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [PDXLUG] Wifi card not working - Any ideas?
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:12:23 -0700 (PDT)
>
>if it's compariable with the orinoco_cs drivers why are you using atmel
>drivers?
>have you thought about using a 2.6 kernel and using the drivers provided
>in the kernel for your card? Menion has pretty high opinions of them last
>i heard.
>
> > Greetings,
> > I have recently acquired a belkin F5D6020 rel. 2 pcmcia card. The reason 
>I
> > bought it was since it was listed as compatible with the orinoco_cs
> > drivers.
> > But when I tried to install it I found I had other problems.
> > I am running redhat 9.0 2.4.20-8
> >
> > When I originally inserted the card, kudzu found it and supposedly
> > installed
> > it... Then, when I failed to find it anywhere in the settings in kde, I
> > tried reboot, upon reboot, an interesting thing happened, the green 
>status
> > light went out on the card while linux was loading, and then kudzu 
>loaded
> > up, and brought me to a screen which said the Belkin card had been
> > removed.
> > Then I had the option to keep configuration, remove configuration or ok
> > (do
> > nothing). So for some reason there is a problem here.
> >
> > After running into this issue, I did some googling (actually alot of
> > googling) and I found the drivers for my card...
> > atmelwlandriver-3.2.4.4 from sourceforge.net
> > So I installed these drivers, did the configure, and made all, which
> > successfully compiled the drivers.
> > After this step...
> > I am trying to get pcmcia services running for my wifi card on my 
>laptop.
> > I
> > am running Redhat 9.0 2.4.20-8
> > I have a belkin f5d6020 ver. 2 card
> > i installed the atmel drivers (atmelwlandriver-3.2.44) from
> > sourceforge.net
> >
> > I edited the /etc/pcmcia/conf and added
> > device "pcmf502rd" class "network" module "pcmf502rd"
> >
> > and then in the proper section... I placed the following lines:
> >
> > card "Belkin F5D6020 rev.2"
> > 		manfid 0x01bf, 0x3302
> > 		bind "pcmf502rd"
> >
> > Then I tried to restart with /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
> > Upon trying to restart I get this error:
> > Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgr modulesds: Device or resouce busy
> > yenta_socket: Device or resouce busy
> > pcmcia_core: Device or resource busy
> > .
> > Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr
> >
> > when i type cardctl ident
> > product info: "Belkin", "11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter"
> > manfid: 0x01bf, 0x3302
> > function: 6 (network)
> > Socket 1:
> > no product info availible
> >
> > when i type iwconfig i get:
> > lo	no wireless extensions.
> >
> > Please let me know what you guys think, thanks.
> >
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