[FC2] Best option for PCMCIA Wireless card
Thomas Molina
tmolina at cablespeed.com
Tue Jun 8 10:21:17 UTC 2004
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > The no socket found message seems independent of whether the card is
> > inserted or not during boot. I was not able to configure the card during
> > install because (big assumption here) of the observed no socket found
> > noted above. In order to configure the card and the resulting eth0 I had
> > to resort to the manual removal of the modules, followed by restarting
> > pcmcia and inserting the card. I could then use the GUI to add a new
> > wireless device as normal.
>
> Granted I have an x86_64 laptop, but try some or all of the kernel boot
> options: noapic pci=noacpi,usepirqmask or noacpi and see if that allows
> you to boot with the wireless nic. On an 'open' wireless lan (no
> security) my pcmcia orinco_cs will find the network with no
> configuration at all using these options. Using wireless security
> obviously does require running system-config-network.
There is security, but it is unrelated to this problem. In any case, it
doesn't even get that far -- the pcmcia system doesn't see any sockets to
talk to so it never sees the NIC to initialize it. I tried booting with
your suggested options; they didn't help. I still get the no sockets
found message.
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