MiniPCI Wireless config for 2.6 kernel on laptop (Howto)

[nlayo]

I spend many hours sorting through the forums for the answer to the problem of configuring my wireless network card. I decided to make a quick guide of how I got my setup to work (your luck will vary).

My Setup:
-Gateway 9550 Solo
-2.6.4-gentoo-r1
-Lucent MiniPCI 802.11b card
-pcmcia-cs-3.2.7

1) Configure kernel. Make sure to
PCMCIA/Cardbus support -> <*> PCMCIA/CardBus support
PCMCIA/Cardbus support -> <*> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge

Wireless Lan (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions->
[*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions
<*> Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)

Here you just add whichever driver is for your card. This is the one that my card supported.

make && make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/<your image name>
whatever else you do....

2) Emerge -v pcmcia-cs (I used USE flags X, pnp)

It will say that it is only building utilities but that's okay because we compiled a driver in step 1.

rc-update add pcmcia-cs boot

3) Configure your net.ethX file where 'X' is the number of your network devices. (I just did a copy of net.eth0 to net.eth1) Mine was 1, since 0 was used by my Ethernet card. Also, make sure that /etc/conf.d/net has the setting for all your network devices.

This is my /etc/conf.d/net
iface_eth0="dhcp"
iface_eth1="dhcp"

Pretty simple =)

4) Hopefully you already added net.eth0 to rc-update but if not, do a
rc-update add net.eth0 default
(No need to do this twice if you already have one net.ethX, well at least I didn't have to.)

5) Reboot

Everything worked out good for me and I hope it does for you too.

Here's some of my dmesg output (good stuff):

Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:06.0 [12a3:ab01]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000011
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:07.0 [107b:9550]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0898, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:07.1 [107b:9550]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0898, PCI irq 10
....
eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.16
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address X:X:X:X:XX
eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 10, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
.....

Try your stuff with ifconfig and ping. Good luck.

[Voffinn]

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