Wireless PCMCIA setup

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Edward Jabbour wrote:
> I have been trying for two days now to set up a Netgear WG511 card.
> I've searched the web so much that my head is now literally spinning.
>
>
> I've compiled CONFIG_PRISM54 into my 2.6.8-r3 kernel. Some info:
>
> cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> product info:??"Intersil",?"ISL3890",?"_",?"_"
> manfid: 0x000b, 0x3890
> function: 254 (null)
>
> iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions
> eth1??NOT?READY!?ESSID:off/any
> Mode:Managed??Channel:0??Access?Point:??00:00:00:00:00
> [etc - in other words, no wireless]
>
> I have emerged the latest (unstable) baselayout and its dependencies, and
> pcmcia-cs. I do not have wlan, net.eth0, eth1 or similar
> in /etc/init.d.??The networking guide in the Gentoo Handbook is not much
> help.
>
> If anyone knows of a good, clear, howto designed for the simple-minded,
> I'd appreciate a pointer or, indeed, any advice at all.??Thanks.

I'll admit up front that i've never used gentoo for this sort of thing,
nor are my wifi cards the same as yours.  However, from the info above it
looks like your card is being detected, so this is likely a wifi
configuration issue, rather than a hardware/pcmcia issue.

How did you configure the interface?

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