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Posted: July 21 2007,04:28 QUOTE
This looks like a normal wireless card but needs setting are missing.
Your essid is "" and are you using wep?

What commands have your tried to configure these settings?
Try these as user root:

# iwconfig eth0 essid my_network_name

and if you are using wep instead try

# iwconfig eth0 essid my_network_name key 12:34:45:...

and finally issue the pump command

# pump -i eth0

HTH
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Posted: July 21 2007,05:10 QUOTE
OH! OH! oh! it works.

You sir are a genius!  Thank you!

I tried to write this reply on my linux laptop... but I guess with the 29Megs (3meg shared video) of ram it cann't handle the big internet...

but I did make it to google and a search before freezing up trying load up dsl forums!

When I boot, the pcmcia card is recognized and the cardmgr jumps in and tries to set things up with a final ignoring unrecognized device eth0, why is that?  and should I do anything about it (other then pull the card out during bootup)

thanks again

Oh, and how do I save my wireless settings?  should i run the prism2 in the console?
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Posted: July 22 2007,02:59 QUOTE
Quote (zramiam @ July 20 2007,22:44)
No luck.

I have added the nodhcp and the pci=assign_busses to the grub boot option for dsl.  

still nothing

here is what I get when I iwconfig

lo      no wireless extensions.

eth0  IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"Prism I"
       Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:18:3F:1b:59:09
       Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
       pwr management:off
       Link Quality12/92 Signal level:147/153 Noise level:114/153
       Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:19 Rx invalid frag:0
       Tx excessive retries:4 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Hopefully that will tell you something else, maybe an idea of something else to try.  Maybe that static thing you mentioned Roberts?

I'm having the same problem with the same card. I tried all the suggestions in this thread but I still can't get mine to work.  :(
The iwconfig command works but the pump -i eth0 comes back with Operation failed.

iwconfig show:

lo      no wireless extensions.

eth0  IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Slick204" Nickname:"Prism I"
       Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:11:50:3C:5B:AF
       Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
       Retry min limit:8  RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
       Encryption key:off
       pwr management:off
       Link Quality92/92 Signal level:5/153 Noise level:112/153
       Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
       Tx excessive retries:6 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

No lights have ever come on, on the card.

What else should I try?? Thanks.
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Posted: July 22 2007,03:17 QUOTE
Also, I ran lsmod and it looks like orinoco_cs, orinoco, hermes, and ds modules are loaded. I tried to rmmod these but get "Device of resource busy".

I assume this is part of the problem. Help!  :)
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Posted: July 23 2007,00:17 QUOTE
Check your essid mine did not work, the first time I tried Roberts last instruction.  The second time I tried it I typed it in ALL CAPS and it worked.

So make sure you check that.

Oh and don't forget to type "sudo" before the "iwconfig eth0 essid SLICK204 key 12:34:56:78:90" and the "pump -i eth0"
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