On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:23, Thomas Molina wrote: > 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. Granted I have an x86_64 laptop, but try some or all of the kernel boot options: noapic pci=noacpi,usepirqmask or noacpi and see if that allows you to boot with the wireless nic. On an 'open' wireless lan (no security) my pcmcia orinco_cs will find the network with no configuration at all using these options. Using wireless security obviously does require running system-config-network. -- Chris Kloiber
