WiFi card...

[Booli]

Hi there, I've got a little problem with my Toshiba Portege 4010 integrated wifi card. (kernel 2.6.5)

When I do a lsmod, the modules orinoco.o and orinoco_cs.o (which are the ones that fits the need of my card when I was under Suse) are loaded but when I do a ifconfig, the card isn't there.

I remembered that the card was somehow loaded behind pcmcia (something strange 'cause it's integrated but I don't really do on hardware things so it may be normal for someone who knows those kind of things).

I verified that the pcmcia service was started and it was...

So, what can I do to access my card with those drivers ??
How can I know the name of the card (wlan0 or eth1... under Suse it was wlan0 but both didn't work when I explicitly did ifconfig <name>)

Thanx for all the help you can provide me !

[Dracnor]

Have you emerged the wireless-tools package? you can then set the essid, encryption, channel, nickname, etc. using iwconfig. I've noticed that with my wireless cards that eth0 will not show up unless I first associate with an Access Point, which cannot be accomplished until I use the iwconfig command to set the parameters.

[Booli]

After emerging wireless-tools : all went really well ! Thanx a lot for the info... (I tried to emerge iwconfig but I didn't know in which package it was)

Thanx again !