Proper Wireless PC Card Setup

[Joel Hammer]

Don't know nuthin' about wireless, laptops, or PCMCIA, but: This sounds
like the drivers aren't loading at boot up. What modules are present after
YAST sets up your card and  what modules are loaded after reboot (lsmod) ?

You might look at your bootup messages (/var/log/messages, dmesg) and
see if your card is being detected at bootup.

Does ifconfig show this type of card?

Joel

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:35:55PM -0400, kbb0927 at cs.com wrote:
> Hello Lists,
> 
> I have set up my Siemens Wireless PCMCIA card using the orinoco_cs drivers
> and according to the manufacturer, I have altered the following files:
> 
> 1.  /etc/pcmcia/config  - put the info about the card and told it to
>                           bind to orinoco_cs here.
> 2.  /etc/wireless.opts  - put the INFO aabout INFO, ESSID, MODE here.
> 
> 3.  Setup the card under yast as eth-pcmcia-0 which gets put up as eth1.
> 4.  When I finish the set up it runs like a charm. 
> 
> When I shutdown the laptop when I'm done and later reboot it, nothings
> works until I go back to yast and reset the card up again. What am I
> missing?
> 
> HARDWARE INFO:   Compaq M700 (PIII-850, 256M RAM, Two Type II PCMCIA slots
>                  Linksys Access Point
>                  Siemens PCMCIA Wireless NIC in Slot 1 (2nd slot)
> 
> SOFTWARE INFO:   SuSE 8.0 Pro, KDE3, Basically out of box install with
>                  YOU updates. Uses yenta_socket drivers.
> 
> Thanks in advance for help.  BTW, Can't get it to run at all under WinXP.
> Go figure!!!
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Keith B.
> 
> 
> P.S.  sent this email under wireless/SuSE 8
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