[wplug] Wireless card not initialized on 2.6.16 kernel

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Richard Farina wrote:

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

I suppose one can never be sure.  orinoco is what I recall from before, 
but perhaps I'm mistaken. Or perhaps something's changed.

How can I go about finding out?

-Brandon

> -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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