[LUGSB] Setting up Wireless on Debian

[Mark]

The Linksys WPC11 card is not supported by the prism54 driver.  The list
of supported cards is available here:
http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php.  I'm pretty familiar with the
prism54 driver as it works with my Netgear WG511 card and I haven't had
many problems getting it to work with recent kernels.  Usually I just
put the isl3890 firmware file into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and bring
up the interface with ifconfig eth1 up.  However, that won't work for
you because your card requires a different driver.  I'm not exactly sure
why your card isn't working with drivers that it has worked with in the
past, but I know it won't work with the prism54 driver.  Oh, the prism54
and prism2 drivers are unrelated except in name, they are made for
different wireless chipsets.

--Mark.

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 09:57, David Turner wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 3 card PCMCIA card on
> an IBM Thinkpad T20 laptop. I'm using Debian testing
> with a 2.6.8 kernel image (not compiled myself). I'm
> specifically having problems with setting up the
> prism54 driver that comes with that kernel. Is prism54
> driver a replacement for prism2 drivers?
> 
> I've gotten wireless to work with Debian
> testing using the orinoco, orinoco_cs, and hermes
> kernel modules before, but I can't even do that now
> after various config changes. I want to use the
> prism54 and hostap drivers though because I want to
> run monitor mode and run kismet, gps, etc and orinoco
> doesn't do that for me. My problem is the device eth1
> is not even getting created so when I do ifconfig -a
> there is no eth1. 
> 
> I read up that you have to place a driver isl3890 in
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. I downloaded that file, and
> added an entry for eth1 in my /etc/network/interfaces
> file. I've also manually added an entry in the fstab,
> but don't know if that was done right. I've also tried
> compiling the 2.6.8 kernel source myself because I
> thought this might solve my problems, but still no
> luck.
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on the situation?
> 
> Thanks,
> David 
> 
> 
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