Networking :: WPC11 wireless help needed



If it is a prism2 don't use ndiswarpper, try the Prism2 GUI.
According to the Wiki that is the one to use. Use ndiswrapper only if it  is a v4 (realtek)

oK,  I've gone ahead and done a new frugal grub install onto the HD with dsl 3.4, fun!  Thinking this would clean out any settings I set up that are just wrong and could be buggering things up. (tell me if my thinking is wrong)

Now, I've gone to the DSLpanel, PCMCIA Tool >

ident:

socket 0:
no product info available  (right nothing plugged in here)

socket 1:
product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.","Instant Wireless Network PC Card","ISL37300P","Rev A",
manfid: 0x0274,0x1613
function: 6 (network)

Info:

PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1="The Linksys Group, Inc"
PRODID_2="Instant Wireless Network PC Card"
PRODID_3="ISL37300P"
PRODID_4="RevA"
MANFID=0274,1613
FUNCID=6

I think that looks right? maybe...  Anyway I tried using the prism2 GUI, but it just returned "connection failed", I did vi /opt/myprism2.sh to see what was in the file:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/prism2.sh wlan0 6 <myssid> <wepcode> 2>&1 >/dev/null

? hopefully this info will help...
I have the laptop with me at work, so a wireless connection is not actually available, but I can try more system checks/tweeks today during work BREAKS times... ya that's it.

Thanks for all the help so far

For the WPC11 ver3, use ndiswrapper, using the windows drivers (bcmw15.sys, bcmw15.inf) and setting the path.  That will do it.

note:  If you incorrectly installed it previously, first:

   rmmod ndiswrapper
   ndiswrapper -e netcard

Then you can start from scratch....

Also, after installing, you may need:
 "sudo pump -i eth0"  

(check "ifconfig"  to make sure signal is on eth0)

Oh, man! no love from my wireless....

I tried both methods; I even found a post from someone with the same laptop, they switched the bios from pcmcia to card bus to get theirs working.  mine was set on auto-detect.  I'll try it set to pcmcia tonight and let you know if that does the trick.

Well, nothing seems to work.

I try prism2 = connection failed

I switched the bios from pcthing to cardbus to autodetect... no change.

When I boot I get the the list of pcmcia cardmgr starts up, with hermes, orinoco, orinoco_cs, eth0 set up then when the ifup eth0 comes up I get an error "ignoring unknown device" (or something similar to that)

I think that is where the problem is but I don't know what to do to fix it.

Is there a manual method of checking/setting up eth0 so that it is recognized?

what other commands can I use to try and sort this out, so far I've learned:

ifconfig
ifconfig -a
ifconfig eth0 up

iwconfig

cardctl ident

pump
pump -i eth0
both of which fail...

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