Proper Wireless PC Card Setup

[kbb0927@cs.com]

Joel,

The proper mosules are loaded according to lsmod, but I think it 
might be related to boot order. Will look at this.

Regards,

Keith B.

Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

>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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