Text 5763, 49 rader
Skriven 2006-04-19 20:00:16 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 5761 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: pcmcia & kv2.6
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Hey Stephen!

Apr 19 08:09 06, Stephen Haffly wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 SH> So far, I can query the card from a command line and get information
 SH> about it.  It still is not recognized by the network manager, which
 SH> still reports that there is no modem present.

Yeah that tends to happen with Fedora applications.  Everytime I altered
anything useful all the disribution supplied apps tended to fail miserably and
I could never be bothered to hack their stuff to work like it should.  If you
do a 'lsmod' on the commandline you should at least see that the yenta module
and pcmcia_core (perhaps a few others) are being loaded.  If so then I'd be
inclined to write Fedora and ask them why their supplied utilities fail to spot
the obvious, especially using their supplied kernel build.  To be honest I
doubt they even care but it is worth a shot just to see what their 'support' is
worth.  ;-)

 SH> The article also said something about needing to have a resource file
 SH> for some types of cardbus adapters, mine apparently being one of the
 SH> types needing it. :(

Hm.  I'll have a looksee.  Right now I am playing with udev and needed to edit
a few of it's scripts just to get some hardware working the way I want from
bootup.  Looks good so far and there might be a solution for your cause in
there ... somewhere.  I may put the pci card back in and use that to test
pcmcia but only have compactflash pcmcia adapters handy for testing.  I haven't
needed any other pcmcia devices for ages now so I don't have any.  On the plus
side at least it uses yenta, which I think yours is the same, so at least the
basic functionality can be tested.

 SH> Anyway, I will keep plugging away at it.  One of these days, I will
 SH> hopefully get it to work.  Just for comparison, I plugged my Belkin
 SH> F5D7010 802.11g wireless notebook card in.  On the WinXP side, it
 SH> started right up and detected an active network (one of my neighbors
 SH> must have gotten a wireless router recently).  However, on the Linux
 SH> side, the card isn't detected even when I use the same commands that
 SH> tell me what the modem is.  Strange and frustrating.

Most definetly can be frustrating but once one knows what the real problem is
then linux is superior to WinXP as far as configurabilty issues are concerned
and thus more secure, especially with wireless.  Windows is too braindead to be
truly secure on a wireless network.

Life is good,
Maurice

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