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jaghetertoffe
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:11 am    Post subject: wlan installation Reply with quote

Hi,

I have a D-Link DWL-610 PCMCIA card that I would like to use to connect to my university's wlan.

Problem: I am a noob and have no idea where to start.

Have I searched the forums? Oh yeah. I got a lot of hits for guides, but I didn't know which to follow.

What I have done:
I have support for PCMCIA in the kernel (2.6.3)
I have emerged pcmcia-cs
cp /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1
(I already have one 100MB/s nic called eth0.)

My plan is to use dhcp for the wireless card, but I don't know what to do...

Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
toffe
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What chipset do you have ?

This worked great for me:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125627&highlight=wireless
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried to follow the guide, but I don't get very far.

Step 0. I alreay have the latest version of wireless-tools.

Step 1.
lspci doesn't output anything like this
Code:
Network Controller: Broudcom Corporation BCM94304 802.11g (rev 02)

This is the closest one:
Code:
0000:01:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 33)


OK, so I checked my kernel settings.
I have a "dot" in the square for Bus Options/PCMCIA/Card bus support.

Device Drivers / Networking support / Wireless LAN Drivers is not checked.
Should it be?
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jaghetertoffe
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I decided that it should be.

Now I can't recompile the kernel...

Code:
  SPLIT   include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  CC      arch/i386/kernel/process.o
arch/i386/kernel/process.c:499: error: conflicting types for '__switch_to'
include/asm/system.h:13: error: previous declaration of '__switch_to' was here
arch/i386/kernel/process.c:499: error: conflicting types for '__switch_to'
include/asm/system.h:13: error: previous declaration of '__switch_to' was here
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/process.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2


Should I just go and die or something?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think that the card you are quoting is the right one. Your card is probably just not detected at all. The result of lspci should clearly state that it's a network device. Seems to be a PCMCIA rather than a network configuration problem. Unfortunately I don't own a laptop and I don't know anything about PCMCIA stuff...
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello.

I use ndiswrapper and the latest windblows driver. And it works for me.

I builded the PCMCIA as modules and it works.... after more then two houers ;-)

so give it a good spank and I think you will get it to run.
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