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Topic: Siemens I-Gate 11M not recognized, this card is identically with SMC 2635W

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escay

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Posted: May 04 2006,14:58

Hi Folks,

first of all: DSL rocks!!!

I´ve got a serious problem with my w-lan card. It isn´t even recognized by dsl. Anyone got this card working on an equal system? Is there any other possibility than using the ndiswrapper? (don´t want to use this, ´coz my system is already low on RAM and the winDoS-driver needs 32 MB of RAM under winDoS). For that is my only Laptop, i´ve never had the chance to test this card. If it´s plugged to the pcmcia-slot the greenish light on the card is on.

Hardware Setup:
Acer Note Light 370 C
P1 150 MHz
16 MB RAM
1 GB HDD
DSL (last stable release) was installed via hd-install.
If more Information is needed please post a reply.

Greetz
Escay

escay

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Posted: May 04 2006,19:59

well - some further information on that topic

i just tried again to bring that card up. i plugged it in before i booted the system. here´s what i´ve got:

pcmcia found, starting cardmgr.
cardmgr[53]: starting, version is 3.1.33
cardmgr[53]: wathcing 2 sockets
cardmgr[53]: Card Services release does not match
cardmgr[53]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter
cardmgr[53]: execution: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
cardmgr[53]: get dev info on socket 0 filed: Resource temporarily unavailable

thats it... any ideas?

greetz
escay

escay

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Posted: May 08 2006,13:16

the story so far:
in the meanwhile i tried to bind a bunch of different drivers to the device. In /etc/pcmcia/config there is an entry "Intersil Prism2 Wireless LAN Adapter" wich is bind to "orinoco_cs"

well replaced "orinoco_cs" with "prism2_cs" which doesn´t work. I tried to replace it with "wvlan_cs" but it seems this one isn´t there. So i tried "wavelan_cs" instead. It found the device telling me that this driver don´t fit to this device. So it seems as it would definitly be a driver problem. I´d like to try the wlan-ng driver instead, but i don´t have a clou how to get this one working. Where do i bind this driver to the device? please help...

Greetz escay

escay

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Posted: May 10 2006,15:39

well - finally i found out that i probably never would get this card running on that laptop.

the laptop has a pcmcia slot which only supports 5 v . the card needs 3.3 v

because the laptop is very old, it only supports 16bit-pcmcia, while the card is an 32bit adapter.

if anyone else should have this "problem" - here ist what it´s all about!

Greetz
Escay

roberts

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Posted: May 10 2006,17:14

Ah, this is the cardbus vs the pcmcia voltage issue.
I too have an old laptop and no cardbus type cards will work. Cardbus have a gold colored connector.

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