Adding new Wireless card

Forum: Networking
Topic: Adding new Wireless card
started by: fischp

Posted by fischp on Sep. 09 2005,11:44

Excellent OS! Could someone please help me with the following problem?

I've got a Sierra wireless card which requires that I add it's properties to the /etc/pcmcia/config file and some .dat files to the /etc/pcmcia/cis directory. I've specified that the /etc/pcmcia and .../cis directory be backed up.

Could someone please tell me what I need to do to have the drivers present at boot time? The config file and .dat files are restored prior to the start of X, too late to be there for the cardmgr to propoerly recognize the device.

I'm booting from a 128 MB Flash card.

Help!

Thanks!!!

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Sep. 09 2005,14:23

Pack all of the driver files into .tar.gz (using Emelfm highlight the files and right click-->Plugins-->Pack) and rename the .tar.gz extension to .dsl. Then add the .dsl file to your base directory; this should load the files at boot time.

Posted by fischp on Sep. 10 2005,01:57

Cody,

At the risk of sounding dumber than I usually am... By base directory, do you mean the dir that I back up, like /home/dsl or the root directory?

When I pack the files, are the paths the files are in saved?

Sorry for the silly question. And thank you!

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 11 2005,06:29

By "base directory", he mains the top level directory of your DSL boot device.

In other words, inside /cdrom

Yes, you need to use a method that specifies the path when you pack your files. Hopefully the emelfm function will do this.

Posted by fischp on Sep. 11 2005,19:03

Thank you. It all gets restored, but too late for the cardmgr to pick it up. I cheated and did the following to get it to work from with a shell program called by bootlocal.sh to get the cell card working at boot:

cardctl eject
sleep 2
cardctl insert
sleep 2
cardctl ident

Thanks to all!