PCMCIA wireless cards not working on 3.4-1rc1
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I have been using various mepises for almost two years (and now having a paid subscription too), on many systems.
Currently with 3.4-1rc1 wireless works on a laptop with an integrated card (IBM T43p)
but I cannot get any of my two pcmcia netgear wireless cards to work on my sony vaio
(ubuntu gets the MA401 right instead).
the OSCenter GUI says Wireless: not found
$ iwconfig
says no wireless extension for all of the ifaces
for my old-and-tried netgear MA401
modprobe prism2_cs --> reports no errors
dmesg reports
prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 9, io 0x0100-0x013f
cardctl status
Socket 0:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]
cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P", "Eval-RevA"
manfid: 0x000b, 0x7300
function: 6 (network)
any help is apprecaited
PS the other card is a WG511T which uses the ath driver and should show up as ath0.
unfortunately again the system does find no interface with wireless extensions.
update - wireless pcmcia on 3.4.2-rc1 : /sbin/wlanctl-ng ??
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with older releases my pcmcia cards (netgear MA401 and Netgear WG511T) would just show up in the OS center: entering ssid and key was all I needed to be connected.
with 3.4-1rc1 and 3.4-2rc1 wireless is not found.
modprobe prism2_cs and modprobe ath_pci show no problems the drivers seem ok but they don't show up as eth1 and ath0 as they used to.
following the wiki instructions
http://www.mepislovers-wiki.org/index.php?title=Linksys_WUSB12%2C_prism2_usb_chipset
essentially once
/sbin/wlanctl-ng
exists the oscenter tells me that the wireless is on wlan0
but wlan0 cannot then connect, nor with the command line.
any hints?