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[Electrode]

move along, nothing to see here

 

[manly]

Here we go again.

As you already know, the DWL-500 is actually a DWL-650 PC card (plus a PCI adapter), which is based on the Intersil Prism2 chipset. A lot of the cheap 802.11b clients use this chipset.

I'm not too familiar with Slackware, but from the looks of things, you've done the right basic steps to set up a wireless PC card device.

The low-toned "boop" after the high-toned "beep" means the PCMCIA subsystem attempted to load a driver for your PC card, and failed.

So the first step is to look in /var/log/messages to see what PCMCIA card services is reporting.

Based on that, we might get a bit further.

As I mentioned last time, the linux-wlan-ng drivers are the preferred drivers for Prism2 devices, but orinoco_cs should work as well.

If you want to PM or email me, go right ahead but I won't necessarily be any more responsive or helpful. It'd be easier to send files that way though, than to cut & paste into a thread here.

 

[Electrode]

Sorry if I'm comping across as a luser, but with this I am really clueless!

grep cardmgr /var/log/messages:
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[822]: watching 1 sockets
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[822]: Card Services release does not match
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: starting, version is 3.1.33
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs station_name=MY_PC'
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: + /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o: invalid parameter parm_station_name - duh!
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: + /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o failed
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: + /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o: insmod orinoco_cs failed
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: modprobe exited with status 255
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective cardmgr[823]: module /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o not available
Mar 22 16:55:24 collective cardmgr[823]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 22 16:55:24 collective cardmgr[823]: wrong module 'orinoco_cs' for device 'orinoco_cs'?

grep "kernel: cs:" /var/log/messages:
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Mar 22 16:55:23 collective kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.


Anything?

EDIT: looks like I found one problem already. I will fix it and report the results.

 

[Electrode]

I have officially humiliated myself infront of the entire OS forum. By removing that line in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and restarting cardmgr, I got the card working, and I'm actually posting over it now.

Let us forget I ever asked.