Subject: Re: Wireless
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 00:10:43 AKST
Oops, my bad. It's part of wlan-ng, an add-on (sort of).
I just finished setting it up on my Compaq laptop running RH 7.0 w/
2.2.22 kernel and pcmcia 3.2.3. As I'm not using the RH pcmcia rpm, but
pcmcia stock source, it shouldn't be too much different than setting up
on Debian.
First off, you shouldn't need the 2.4 kernel to get this working.
According to Linux-wlan's README, they have tested it with the 2.2.13
Kernel and pcmcia 3.1.10 (on the PowerPC anyway). You probably do need
the tools available to compile a kernel however and to have configured
it. I suspect that a 'make oldconfig' should work. Should do a Makefile
set-up just like the stock installed kernel.
To do the install, I pretty much just followed the instructions in their
README at:
ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README
Afterwords, I just added the information for the my SpeedStream card in
'/etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf' and the ESSID in 'etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts.
You may not have to edit the '.conf' file as I believe it's already
set-up for you card.
I will be curious to see if it works better than the orinoco drivers at
Fri Linux. For some reason my wireless card works fine at home and at
work, but it hasn't worked under linux at Fri Linux since IDEA changed
to that wireless link between the buildings. Must be some kind of freq.
or channel problem that the orinoco driver won't discriminate. Hopefully
the prism driver will.
Jim Gribbin
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 16:47, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Fielder,
>
> The prism2_cs module is not actually part of the kernel, it is part of
> pcmcia_cs. If you don't have it and need it, get a newer version of
> pcmcia_cs from http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net.
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 15:20, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> > Adam, can you supply a few more details. I don't have a "prism2_cs"
> > module as part of my 2.4.18-k6 kernel. Also, what is "WarLinux"?
> >
> > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:24:00 -0900
> > Adam Elkins <i-robot@gci.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Fielder,
> > > Well, I'm having _some_ luck with the prism2_cs module. When I
> > > boot WarLinux on a laptop, it has no problems detecting the card.
> > > I'm getting my access point today (So I don't have to stand on the
> > > corner where I found the open network)
> > > Hopefuly, I'll have some more luck, I'll be sure to let you know
> > > how it goes.
> > >
> > > Adam
> > snip
>
>
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