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wireless network:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz∞
this website helped me tremendously getting a Xandros machine on my wireless network:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz∞
my understanding is that if one distro can see the card, any distro with the same kernel will see it as well. once I got a card that was on this list as 'tested' everything just worked. look for cards that use the Prism chipset, they seem to be listed a lot here.
instruction to use a PCMCIA wireless card. I have a U.S. Robotics IEEE 802.11b PC-CARD, which is supported by wlan project.
There are a couple assumption I made.
1. PCMCIA card is in the slot when booting. I think this assumption is not important
2. PCMCIA card not be taken out while machine is running. I hung my system for doing this action.
Steps:
1. Identify your card and compile the reqiured module.
o After boot up, run the following
+ cardmgr
+ cardctl ident
o Output for those command are:
+ Watching 2 sockets
+ Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "U.S. Robotics", "IEEE 802.11b PC-CARD", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
o Look at
http://www.linux-wlan.org/∞ to download the modules source.
o Compile the modules
+ I compiled the whole kernel (bzimage) and all the modules that I need myself, instead of just compile the modules. But this should not matter
1. Load the modules after boot up
o Add those lines to /etc/pcmcia/config
+ device "prism2_cs"
class "network" module "prism2_cs"
+ card "U.S. Robotics IEEE 802.11b PC-CARD Version 01.02"
version "U.S. Robotics", "IEEE 802.11b PC-CARD", "Version 01.02"
manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
bind "prism2_cs"
o kill cardmgr process and restart cardmgr process
o dmesg now should return something like this
+ cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x3f0-0x3f7 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
prism2cs_init: prism2_cs.o: 0.2.1-pre26 Loaded
prism2cs_init: dev_info is: prism2_cs
prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
o and under /proc/net/p80211/ you should have a wlan0 directory. At this point, your card is found and driver is loaded.
1. Make the card usable
o If you don't have WEP enabled, run the following command. You should see something like linkstatus=CONNECTED in dmesg
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=your_ssid authtype=opensystem
o If you have WEP enabled, you need the following. And you should see something like linkstatus=CONNECTED in dmesg
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_hostwep decrypt=true encrypt=true
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID?=0
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted?=true
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked?=true
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0?=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
+ wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=your_ssid authtype=sharedkey
1. Run dhcpcd wlan0 or ifconfig to configure your network device wlan0
