Debian + Wireless nic = Help!!

[touser3]

Hi all, i just installed debian woody on my laptop with the 2.4 kernel. I have a siemens S1021 802.11b pcmcia network card and i cannot for the life of me get it to work. On hte install i configured the kernel to work with al lthe wireless cards available just to be sure..but still a no go. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Stef]

As ar as I know, Seimens wireless cards aren't supported.


http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

http://www.linuxhq.com/ldp/howto/Hardware-HOWTO/nic.html

Stef

[MikeyMan]

hmm.

What I'd like you to do for me is enter a shell, change to root, enter these, then post the results for each one:

lspci

lspci -n

also, it would help if I could see your dmesg output statement from boot.

Are you sure that's the right model PCMCIA card? Google is not returning any hits.

What does your /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file say?

[touser3]

Thank you both for the reply's.. i have given up on the siemens card.. i returned it and got a linksys WPC11 instead..but i still have no clue how to get it working.. i have searched google and found this guide http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Wire...html#FTN.AEN170
but it is still way over my head.

[Stef]

I've never dealt with PCMCIA devices or even wireless LAN. But I did manage to find a few links of interrest from google:

HOWTO Wireless Linksys WPC11 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/HowToWirelessLinksysWPC11)

Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO (http://linuxsupport.tuxcds.com/HOWTO/mini/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/index.html)

Unfortunetly, it looks like you'll need to recompile the kernel for this. However, there is some Debian packages available in unstable that you can use.Try to use them first before attempting a recompile.

linux-wlan-ng (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/linux-wlan-ng.html)

linux-wlan-ng-modules (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.20-1-386.html)

kernel-pcmcia-modules (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.20-1-386.html)

pcmcia-cs (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/pcmcia-cs.html)

Stef