[TriLUG] Mandrake 9 and wlan-ng

[H Brett Bolen]

Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:36, H Brett Bolen wrote:
> 
> ...
> (As root, do)
> service pcmcia restart
> service networking restart
> 

ok, I get the following:



[root at pingo root]# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0:                                   [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:                               [  OK  ]
Setting network parameters:                                     [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                                 [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:                                     [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface wlan0:                                    [  OK  ]
[root at pingo root]# 


but ifconfig does not report wlan0 being running.

> [root at pingo root]# ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> [root at pingo root]# ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:59:29:24:A4  
>           inet addr:192.168.9.107  Bcast:192.168.9.127  Mask:255.255.255.128
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:70803 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:13532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           RX bytes:81391834 (77.6 Mb)  TX bytes:1403592 (1.3 Mb)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf800 


Here is /var/log/messages:

> Oct  9 14:40:11 pingo network: Shutting down interface eth0:  succeeded
> Oct  9 14:40:12 pingo network: Shutting down loopback interface:  succeeded
> Oct  9 14:40:12 pingo network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
> Oct  9 14:40:12 pingo network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
> Oct  9 14:40:14 pingo network: Bringing up interface eth0:  succeeded
> Oct  9 14:40:15 pingo network: Bringing up interface wlan0:  succeeded
> Oct  9 14:41:01 pingo CROND[12286]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner) 
> [root at pingo root]# 


Here is what happens if I pop the card out then in


> Oct  9 14:43:00 pingo CROND[12297]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner) 
> Oct  9 14:43:11 pingo cardmgr[11488]: unsupported card in socket 1
> Oct  9 14:43:11 pingo cardmgr[11488]:   product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
> Oct  9 14:43:11 pingo cardmgr[11488]:   manfid: 0x0274, 0x1612  function: 6 (network)

I did find the following:

> Oct  9 14:43:59 pingo modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module wlan0

Does the source rpm build these or do I need to rebuild the kernel myself?

b