On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Gustavo Matheus Rahal wrote: > I did a search in the list and a lot of googling and didn't come to a > conclusion about a good option of a PCMCIA Wireless card running on FC2. > There was a discussion about a Orinoco card but with different opinions. > I would like that people that had success setting a wireless card could > give information about the card (the specific model) and how they did to > get it to work. I think it would help a lot of people in the list. Sorry I am so late in replying to this message. I had to make time to install FC2 on my laptop to test my favorite wireless card. I finally got to it this evening and had mixed success. Later, when I have time I will submit an item to bugzilla with all the gory details. For now I will pass on the results of my testing. My laptop is a Compaq Presario 12XL325 with a 650MHz PIII cpu. My favorite wireless ethernet card is an SMC2632W. It uses the orinoco, orinoco_cs, and hermes modules, in addition to the usual pcmcia modules. Getting it working, however, was not straightforward. When pcmcia services are started during bootup I get a message in /var/log/messages saying no sockets found. All the right modules are loaded, but nothing works. What I had to do to get things working is wait until the system is fully up. When I can log in as root I can get things working. I first have to unload all the modules by hand. Using the "service pcmcia stop" command does not unload any of the modules. Once I have issued the stop command and unloaded all the modules I then issue the "service pcmcia start" command. It then finds the socket and inserting/removing the card works as expected. The no socket found message seems independent of whether the card is inserted or not during boot. I was not able to configure the card during install because (big assumption here) of the observed no socket found noted above. In order to configure the card and the resulting eth0 I had to resort to the manual removal of the modules, followed by restarting pcmcia and inserting the card. I could then use the GUI to add a new wireless device as normal. I apologize if the above is not as coherent as I would like. I am going to bed now. As I said, I will enter a bugzilla item when I can. I guess I should have tested the laptop before now. I hope this helps someone.
