Microsoft MN-520 won't work

[Liquid Snake]

This is a pcmcia 802.11b card. I ran the following commands and this is what I got.

[root@meryl dev]# modprobe hermes
[root@meryl dev]# modprobe orinoco
[root@meryl dev]# modprobe orinoco_cs
[root@meryl dev]# ls eth*
ls: eth*: No such file or directory
[root@meryl dev]# ls wlan*
ls: wlan*: No such file or directory
[root@meryl dev]#

No eth* device appears.

[JohnT]

Here's one solution:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg07633.html

[Liquid Snake]

Okay, did that, now I get this:

[root@meryl dev]# cat /var/lib/pcmcia/stab
Socket 0: empty
Socket 1: Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520 1.0.3
1 network orinoco_cs 0 eth0
[root@meryl dev]#

The card is recognized but there is still no /dev/eth*

[JohnT]

Do "ifconfig".

[Liquid Snake]

[root@meryl dev]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:F2:76:2B:CD
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2832 (2.7 Kb) TX bytes:2832 (2.7 Kb)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:63.108.138.190 P-t-P:63.108.136.197 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1
RX packets:847 errors:15 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:912 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:708870 (692.2 Kb) TX bytes:152905 (149.3 Kb)

[root@meryl dev]#


I restarted and bringing up eth0 failed, bringing up wlan0 did work but i can't find either under /dev, what's going on?

The card looks like it's working, the network light is blinking which means it's on, but can't find a network.

[Liquid Snake]

OK I think I see now, eth0 doesn't show up because there is no network right now. I need a wlan device to setup linux-wlan-ng and I don't have that :(

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Liquid Snake
bringing up wlan0 did work but i can't find either under /dev, what's going on?


Neither /dev/wlan0 or /dev/eth0 exist on my system even though I use 'eth0' as my net device.

Have you configured networking? DHCP or Static ip addressing? Gateway address? ISP DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf?

Without those, networking will not work.

[VoiDeR]

I have that same exact card all i did was install linux-wlan-ng driver. Edit the files it says, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and /etc/wlan/wlan.conf. Then restart pcmcia service and everything works. If you have your kernel source already it should only take you 5 mins and you can have it up and running.

VoiDeR