wireless card does not exist

TLGFrohike · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 13

have an IBM T30 Laptop. Gentoo 2005.1 Kernel 2.6.12
PCMCIA BUs is a TI 1520
It has two built-in network adapters. eth0 - Ethernet Intel 10/100(works fine net.eth0) and a Prizm wireless card(internal net.eth1)
But the Intel card is two things, one it only support 802.11b and does not support WPA. My home wireless is setup
as WPA and I will not change that. The card I am tring to use in a pcmcia slot is a Proxim Orinoco 11b/g Gold card.

I think I have the Orinoco card working!

I have created a symbolic link from net.lo to net.eth2 but when I try to do /etc/init.d/net.eth2 start
I get "net.eth2 does not exist"

Any suggestions?

PS. I have another post to make sure that I do indeed have the card functioning.

Logge · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject:

Hi there...

Wireless can be a real pain in the "pick-your-spot".

So... the Orinoco card is supposed to be eth2 ?? It might be wlan0 aswell.
What does:

TLGFrohike · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 13

It tells me eth0 and net.lo and thats it.

I have the net.eth1 which is the internal Intel but that shows up on iwconfig

Monkeh · Veteran Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 1656 Location: England

Try it with the -a option.