jcannare1@comcast.net wrote:
Help anyone!! I've just loaded Suse 9.1 pro on an HP laptop. I've got my 100BT (eth0) working but I haven't been able to get my PCMCIA wireless card to work. Yast see the card and knows what it is but I can't get it to connect. I've tried my NetgearWG511 (802.11g), a Netgear WG521 (802.11b) and a Linksys WPC11 (also 802.11b). At least with the Linksys I get a green power light. Any suggestions?? Am I missing a kernel module or subsystem entry??
Your Netgear WG511 (try google: WG511 linux) is prism54 card. Check out http://prism54.org/ . Suse is actually very good at handling these cards (better than Fedora) but you must understand the method of loading a binary firmware for your card. you probably see this when running 'iwconfig': eth0 "DEVICE NOT READY" If you have the windows driver on CD, you may find a file named 1.0.3.0.arm or 1.0.4.3.arm on the CD. Either of these should be copied to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and renamed isl3890. Then try "ifconfig eth0 up" and "iwconfig": you should now be able to configure the card to your wireless network. Attached is a mini-howto I wrote for some guys at work for the same card. Hope that helps. Cosmo 1) physically install prism wireless card 2) boot os, run 'iwconfig'. you should see: eth0 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any ... 3) ifconfig eth0 up (this will fail, but give us dmesg output) 4) dmesg |tail prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') 5) find the firmware from vendor CD (or from www.prism54.org). it will be named something like: 1.0.4.3.arm Copy it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ and rename it isl3890 6) try again: ifconfig eth0 up; dmesg | tail if the correct firmware (and loading mechanism) are in place, you should see: eth0: islpci_open() eth0: resetting device... eth0: uploading firmware... eth0: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset... 7) and: iwconfig eth0 eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID: "pogo-guest" ... that means all should be working.