[wplug] Wireless card not initialized on 2.6.16 kernel

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at alumni.cmu.edu
Wed Oct 11 18:39:51 EDT 2006


On Wednesday 11 October 2006 20:38, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:28:06PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:13, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > # lspci -v
> >
> > and then google the output.
>
> I think that will just show the PCI-to-cardbus bridge, not what's on
> the card itself.
>
> Try "cardctl ident" to get the pcmcia card's identification string;
> you might need to follow that with some Googling to identify the
> chipset.

Eric, you're absolutely right. lspci does *not* enlighten one on PCMCIA 
devices. Thank you for the correction.

-A


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