Laptops :: Getting PCMCIA Wireless to work

Dsl boots just fine and all, except that when loading pcmcia it states that it cannot find "pcmf502r3" -- googling on the net found that that was the module to make my pcmcia wireless card working. is there any way of getting this module into dsl? like for example a MyDSL package which gives additional modules? i need to get the wireless card working to be able to acces my files, any hints?

try forcing the prism2 wireless driver. it works with almost everything.

but its an atmel chipset, not a prism chipset. its a 3com pcmcia wireless card, and i know its not compatible with a prism chipset (not sure about prism2 though).

but saying that, how do you force a hardware device to use a particular module?

well i have a copy of o'reilly's linux unwired and this is what it says on atmel.

"Atmel was the first to market a USB 802.11b chipset. However, that chipset did not include a radio, so various radios can be used with this chipset, including the Intersil Prism II radios. Linksys and D-Link both sell USB radio adapters based on the Intersil chipset. SMC and 3Com both sell PCMCIA cards using the Atmel chipset."

i have absolutely no idea what that means.

gimme a model number and stuff and i can try to find out more.

also i noticed atmel.conf file, in /etc/pcmcia/atmel.conf

maybe that can help ya out.

type dmsg, see if it comes up with something stating manfid i.e.

unsupported card in slot one manfid 0x52c0,0x7300

if so, then you can bind the card to the orinoco drivers by editing your /etc/pcmcia/config file

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