[wplug] Wireless card not initialized on 2.6.16 kernel

[Richard Farina]

To begin with, do you actually have an orinoco chipset card? Or is it 
prism2? Are you sure?

-Rick Farina

Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have a Linux system I recently upgraded from 2.6.8 to 2.6.16.. 
> installed udev and have no reason to believe it's not working.. lots 
> of other stuff changed too. Now, my wireless PCMCIA card doesn't work 
> anymore. I have the driver ('orinoco') and I can modprobe it and it 
> loads just fine, but it doesn't do anything.
>
> When I insert the PC card it is detected... it gets registered and 
> shows up in /var/log/messages...  It isn't identified as a wireless 
> network card, however. How do I get linux to notice the card and pay 
> attention to it (and give me my network interface)?
>
> /var/log/messages excerpt:
> Oct 11 01:19:15 localhost kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into 
> slot 0
> Oct 11 01:19:15 localhost kernel: pcmcia: registering new device 
> pcmcia0.0
> Oct 11 01:19:54 localhost b:  -- time passes -- Oct 11 01:19:56 
> localhost kernel: pccard: card ejected from slot 0
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brandon
>
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