Debian + Wireless nic = Help!!

touser3 · Post by **touser3** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 10:57 pm

Hi all, i just installed debian woody on my laptop with the 2.4 kernel. I have a siemens S1021 802.11b pcmcia network card and i cannot for the life of me get it to work. On hte install i configured the kernel to work with al lthe wireless cards available just to be sure..but still a no go. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 1:44 am

As ar as I know, Seimens wireless cards aren't supported.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

http://www.linuxhq.com/ldp/howto/Hardwa ... O/nic.html

Stef

MikeyMan · Post by **MikeyMan** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:37 pm

hmm.

What I'd like you to do for me is enter a shell, change to root, enter these, then post the results for each one:

lspci

lspci -n

also, it would help if I could see your dmesg output statement from boot.

Are you sure that's the right model PCMCIA card? Google is not returning any hits.

What does your /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file say?

touser3 · Post by **touser3** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:48 pm

Thank you both for the reply's.. i have given up on the siemens card.. i returned it and got a linksys WPC11 instead..but i still have no clue how to get it working.. i have searched google and found this guide http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Wire...html#FTN.AEN170
but it is still way over my head.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:17 am

I've never dealt with PCMCIA devices or even wireless LAN. But I did manage to find a few links of interrest from google:

HOWTO Wireless Linksys WPC11

Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO

Unfortunetly, it looks like you'll need to recompile the kernel for this. However, there is some Debian packages available in unstable that you can use.Try to use them first before attempting a recompile.

linux-wlan-ng

linux-wlan-ng-modules

kernel-pcmcia-modules

pcmcia-cs

Stef