no socket driver loaded (wireless)

[jtruong]

I'm still trying to install a wireless network with redhat 8.0 and linksys wdt11 pci and wpc11 pcmcia

I've downloaded 4 wlan-ng packages for redhat 8.0. the last two are for pcmcia and plx.

-Do i have to unpack both?

wdt11 pci card is in the hardware listing as orinoco_plx so why do i need the prism2_plx drivers?

I've tried installing the pcmcia-cs and the 4 wlan-ng packages but the network didn't work.

I'm not sure about these following things:

- what do i put in "/etc/modules.conf", alias wlan0 prism2_cs or alias wlan0 prism2_plx?

- what do i put in for "PCIC=" and "PCIC_OPTS="

- when i do "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart" i get some errors that shows under dmesg as "no socket driver loaded!"
What does that mean exactly? Does it not recognize my wdt11?

Also, could you let me know of a special forum for that kind of problem if you know of any? I'd greatly appreciate it.

jtruong

[Uncle Nancy]

Originally posted by jtruong
wdt11 pci card is in the hardware listing as orinoco_plx so why do i need the prism2_plx drivers?

The WDT-11 is PLX based. It's not a native PCI card. You'll have to use the PLX driver instead of the pcmcia or pci drivers.



I'm not sure about these following things:

- what do i put in "/etc/modules.conf", alias wlan0 prism2_cs or alias wlan0 prism2_plx?


alias wlan0 prism2_plx


- what do i put in for "PCIC=" and "PCIC_OPTS="


PCIC is where you specify if the card reader is "i82365" or "yenta_socket"

PCIC_OPTS is where you'd set some config options for the PCIC module.


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- when i do "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart" i get some errors that shows under dmesg as "no socket driver loaded!"
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That means linux can't find your card reader. I've done some checking for you and pcmcia-cs ( as of 3.2.3) doesn't support your WDT-11. The Kernel pcmcia module might.

Also, I've had much better experiences with the hostap drivers than the wlan-ng. You might want to give them a shot.

hostap.epitest.fi

They also have a great mailing list up for support, comments,etc.


Hope this helps!