[lug] Belkin F5D6020 802.11b Wireless PCMCIA card...

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:29, Mr Viggy wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've been trying to get this to work with my laptopp, running Slackware 
> Linux, kernel 2.4.20.  I cannot.  It see's the card, and when it tries 
> to load the 'orinoco' driver, it fails saying that the hardware is not 
> initialized.  I traced through the source code, and it is able to run up 
> to the card services function that init's the card; then it 
> uninitializes the card for some reason.
> 
> Has anyone else been able to get this card to work on their laptop?  I 
> tried the other drivers, and a couple of them would "init" the card, but 
> they return 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 for the MAC address (and that can't 
> be right!).


Hi Viggy,

David Hind's project lists the card:

  http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

as a PrismII which means that it will probably work with the Orinoco
driver that you mention.  I don't know why your PCMCIA initialization
fails but you may want to try:

  - adding an entry in /etc/pcmcia/config
  - switching to the wlan-ng driver:
      http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/


You could bring the card to the Hacking Society meeting in Golden
tonight or in Boulder tomorrow night:

   http://www.hackingsociety.org/

where you can find people (myself included) willing to help (or try to
help).  And both locations have open 802.11b access points to test your
card.

Ed


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