Wireless PCMCIA setup

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Edward Jabbour wrote:
> On Friday 07 January 2005 03:41 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Edward Jabbour wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Exactly.
>
> > How did you configure the interface?
>
> I haven't.  That's what I've been trying to do but have no idea where to
> start.  I've  set up ethernet , ppp, and much more stuff over time, but
> this wifi stuff is a real nut for me.  Totally at a loss here.

Ohh, then i guess you're stuck in some kind of gentoo hell.  How/where
does gentoo configure network interfaces?  On redhat or Suse i could help
you, but i'm lost on gentoo, sorry.


-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman                                netllama at linux-sxs.org
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo                  http://netllama.ipfox.com