howto get a Truemobile 1150 working in gentoo?

AlfonsoX · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 9

Hi,
I am quite new to the setup of the linux kernel, and got the problem of getting my wireless card (Truemobile 1150) working.
The laptop I have is a Dell Inspiron 8200.
Can somebody provide me to right settings for the .conf of the kernel (I use 2.6.1

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lspci gives:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] (rev b2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 7

02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller

Peace Frog · Apprentice Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 185

I had similar problems locating drivers and I still haven't gotten my wireless card to work (though I haven't realy sat down and tried to work through it yet)

I seem to remember something about lspci not recognizing PCMCIA devices, but that can be fixed. When you di get it recognized Wynn explained the great driver search quite well here when I was digging arround for my net drivers.

Good luck

AlfonsoX · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 9

I am not sure, with the livecd I can make it work by modprobing orinoco_cs.
But I see orinoco also in de menuconfig options, which I have selected ofcourse.

or do I have to use modprob to load the orinoco_cs drivers,
or do I have to use ndiswrapper to load the windows drivers, what does seem to me a bit dirty.

AlfonsoX · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 9

when I select the following in menuconfig:

Bus Options --> PCCARD (PCMCIA/Cardbus) support
Load 16-Bit PCMCIA support
Cardbus yenta-compatible bridge support (automatically enables 32-Bit support)

Device drivers-->Network device support --> wireless lan (non-hamradio)
Hermes PCMCIA card support (only available if 16 Bit PCMCIA support is enabled)
Hermes chipset support 802.11b (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)

device drivers --> PCMCIA network device support

the init will stop in runlevel 3:

INIT: Entering runlevel 3
* PCMCIA support detected
* Start PCMCIA ...
cardmgr[3753]: watching 3 sockets
cardmgr[3753]: socket 2: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter

and the init stops here.
What can I do to make the wireless-card working?

nixnut · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
hardware support question, so moved here.
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