Robert Crowther wrote:
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:11:25 -0500, Rick Bilonick <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I tried to install FC2 months ago so I don't remember all the details clearly. My memory was that the pcmcia slot did not work but I don't think I knew enough at the time to try to restart it. (Now I realize I should at least have tried to restart it.) Under RH9, the pcmcia slot is activated first and then the network card is activated. Why would you try to activate a pc-card network card before activating the pc-card slot (if that is what FC2 was doing)?
When you say firmware for the card, do you mean you have to install code into the card? (I've heard of updating firmware in certain types of hardware.) I was thinking of buying a DWL G650 to increase the connection speed.
I was reading yesterday (though I can't find the link right now) that modern wlan cards expect the driver to load their firmware for them on startup, there is RAM set aside on the cards for this. Apparently it is to reduce problems with firmware/driver mismatches and problems with out of date firmware.
With regard to your earlier problems - did you definitely have the pcmcia-cs service running? I know there was a big change with how pcmcia-cs works with 2.6 kernels rather than 2.4 kernels (in 2.4 the drivers came with the pcmcia-cs package, in 2.6 the drivers come with the kernel package - I think).
Rob
I looked at the D-Link DWL-G650 which Scott said used the prism54 driver. The box I saw at Best Buy today mentioned something about atheros. Does prism54 support the atheros chipset?
If I try to install FC3 on the laptop, it should install the pcmcia driver and the prism 2 (orinoco) driver automatically, shouldn't it? (I just installed FC3 on an older computer I had FC2 on and it installed without any problems. I also have FC2 running on a new Athlon 64 system. I just had the problem with the laptop.)
Rick B.
