[lwlan-user] Have to reset pcmcia

[Partha Bagchi]

Sorry Jim, can't help other than to suggest that you alias eth0 to wlan0.


jim tate wrote:

> It does load at boot time , you can hear the two beeps and see when it 
> loads.
> But there's something about redhat's pcmcia drivers and the wlan 
> pcmcia drivers
> that are causing the conflict, I'm not all that good at linux at this 
> time, to know what to do.
> The way wlan wants to run things is not the way Redhat9.0 wants it to 
> happen.
> The drivers are being loaded at boot ,but redhat is unloading them, when
> you eject the pcmcia card and put it back into the slot, after you 
> have login
> as user, who's pcmcia drivers are then  reconizing the pc card?
> Redhat wants to read ifcfg-eth0 and not  ifcfg-wlan0.
>
> Thanks Jim tate
>
>
> Partha Bagchi wrote:
>
>> I think it means that prism2_cs is not loaded at boot time. What does 
>> the output of lsmod tell you?
>>
>> Partha
>>
>> jim tate wrote:
>>
>>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/28/03 17:50, jim tate wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/28/03 17:08, jim tate wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> redhat9.0/dell Inspiron8100 laptop.
>>>>>>> After reboot, always have to restart PCMCIA to get network to 
>>>>>>> come up.
>>>>>>> I have attached my sys log would someone please tell me what's 
>>>>>>> going wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For starters:
>>>>>> config error, file 'config' line 1006: unknown device: prism2_cs
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You didn't think that stood out as bad?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Okay so what do I do with that?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> look at the config file on line 1006 and see why you're sepcifying 
>>>> a module as a device.
>>>>
>>>> This is what i found at line 1006 in /pcmcia/config.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>
>>>
>>> [root@mollie root]# cardctl ident
>>> Socket 0:
>>>  no product info available
>>> Socket 1:
>>>  prfile:/home/mickey/mickoduct info: "ACTIONTEC", "PRISM Wireless 
>>> LAN PC Card", "0381", "RevA"
>>>  manfid: 0x1668, 0x0101
>>>  function: 6 (network)
>>> [root@mollie root]#
>>>
>>> This is at line 1006, and it looks okay to me.I edited this in to 
>>> reconize
>>> my card.
>>>
>>> card "Actiontec 802C12"
>>> manfid 0x1668, 0x0101
>>> bind "prism2_cs"
>>>  
>>>
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