Re: simple question

[Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 10:53, Zyman, Andy wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to figure out why my SMC wireless card is not working.
> 
> so far this is my finding ( I should say I'm totally new to this , including
> Linux ).
> 1. Cardbus cards are not handled by PCMCIA package ( kernel 2.4.18-14,
> pcmcia 3.1.31 )
> 2. At the same time pcmcia is needed to be in the memory for hotplug events
> to be recognized by kernel.
> 
>  Please any comment on this
> 
> 3. Cardbus network cards ( ethernet and wireless ) trigger the pci.agent
> with ethX parameter and <REGISTER> event.
> 	this basically calls ifup ethX 
> 	
> Now why it calls ETHx, not wlan interface?
> 
> Any help even hammering my head against the wall - will help.
> 
> Thank You
>  Andy
> 

I had the same problem, but in my case I was using a kernel w/o the
wireless extentions enabled, thus all my wifi card were coming through
as ethX.   Don't know if that helps.

thanks,
  joshua





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