Networking :: Wireless PCMCIA card, Not working

So, I got a really old laptop the other day, and decided I'd put DSL on it. Use it every now and then for various web stuff, and because it sounded like a neat little project.

It's a Micron Millennia Transport Laptop, 133 MHz Pentium with 47 MB RAM and a 1.6 GB HD.

I put in a Lucent Technologies Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card, just to see if I could get it to work. From the verified wireless wiki page, the card actually matches the Orinoco silver model number "PC24E-H-FC". I'm pretty sure it should still work.

I've used all of the gui tools available in DSL, and nothing seems too work.

Just to be sure it wasn't the card, or a hardware issue, I loaded up Debian Etch, and it was able to connect to my local AP just fine. I had to do it via command line as it wouldn't load into the window system. But I was able to update the package list, download lynx, and browse pages.

I'm just a little lost as to what to try next to get it working.

Does the card light up?
Please post the output of lsmod, lspci, cardctl ls, cardctl info

It lights up for Debian, but not DSL. Also, Using DSL 4.4.6.

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[/home/dsl]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
soundcore 3428 0 (autoclean)
mousedev 3832 0 (unused)
hid 22788 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [mousedev hid]
usbcore 58240 0 [hid]
ext3 64388 0 (autoclean)
jbd 46804 0 (autoclean) [ext3]
unionfs 67168 7
serial 52228 0 (autoclean)
ieee1394 183300 0
pcmcia_core   39840 0
apm 9768 1
rtc    7036   0 (autoclean)
cloop   39204 2
ide-cd 28576    0
ide-scsi 9040    1

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[/home/dsl]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430MX - 84237MX Mob. System Ctrlr (MTSC) & 82438MX Data Path (MTDP) (rev 02)
00:01.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 430MX - 82371MX Mobile PCI I/O IDE Xcelerator (MPIIX) (rev 03)
00:13.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev fe)
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 7548

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[/home/dsl]# cardctl ls
no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

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[/home/dsl]# cardctl info
no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

OK, your pcmcia chip isn't recognized. From google it seems to be
Cirrus Logic PD-6729/6730 [i82365 compatible mode]

First check if it has to be put into that mode in bios. If it can, it should be recognized automatically after the change. If not, try "sudo modprobe i82365".

After this, either auto-recognition or the modprobe, please post the output of those three commands again, and the last 10 lines of "dmesg" too.

From the looks, I don't have the option of changing the bios settings for pcmcia. I have options for everything else, except that. It's rather limited with what can be changed though.

As for modprobe. It didn't work quite like I was hoping.

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[/home/dsl]# modprobe i82365
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/driver/pcmcia/i82365.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/driver/pcmcia/i82365.o: insmod i82365 failed

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[/home/dsl]# cardctl ls
no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

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[/home/dsl]# cardctl info
no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

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[/home/dsl]# dmesg |tail -n 10
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
<6>usb.c: registered new driver hid
<6>hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Voljtech Pavlick <vojtech@suse.cz>
<6>hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
<6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
<6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
<4>EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running 2fsck is recommended
<6>EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
<6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
<6>Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.

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