Laptops :: [newbie] Help with WiFi cards

Here's what I had to do - AFTER I had a working card that DSL was happy with (which registered as ATH0, not WLAN0 like some) - the GUI might have worked too:
At a terminal prompt, enter:

iwconfig ath0 mode managed
iwconfig ath0 rate auto
iwconfig ath0 key 12:34:56:78:90:12:34:56:78:90:12:34
(hex WEP key with colons between each hex pair)
pump -i ath0

voila! I could suddenly connect.. Doing it one step at a time like this helps, I think.

HTH

i managed to install my integrated rt2500 wlan card with the help of th belkin guide -sweet
my laptop has a button to turn on the wlan, which just doesnt seem to be working even now.
question is: how can i make it turn my card on.:rock:
thx

Hi,
plug your card in your pcmcia cardbus and run DSL. When dsl is up and running, type in a shell:

lsmod

and also

iwconfig -a

and report us the results back.
yours
z

Edit: I assume that you entered the correct parameters for your router before you type the two commands in the shell (in wlanconfig, you should input your ESSID and WEP-key, e.g. the name of your home-network and the security key to crypt it).

edit: sorry for my previous post, it was actually a reply to the post of jeromeF.
yours
z

JeromeF,

I would give DSL 2.1b a try as it has a newer kernel and PCMCIA card manager software. I had similar problems with my Compaq Armada 1530d and an HP 5700CT. I could get a standard PCMCIA ethernet card working but my wireless card would refuse to work. Changing both laptops to DSL 2.1b fixed the problem.

The problem has to do with the way interrupts are routed to the Cardbus controller chips, especially the Texas Instruments series that the Armada laptops have (TI PCI 1220 in your case). DSL 2.1b has the card manager module that has the fix for this problem. You should do a "cat /proc/interrupts" to see if the Cardbus controller interrupts are sitting at zero. If they are, then you have this problem.

Regards,

Jonam

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