Prism2 Wireless on FC2?

[Shaun T. Erickson]

Dave Ashby wrote:
> Just upgraded to FC2.
> 
> Good news: unlike FC1, pcmcia detects my wireless card at boot.
> "cardctl ident" yields:
> Socket 0:
>  product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC 
> Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
>  manfid: 0x0274, 0x1612
>  function: 6 (network)
> Socket 1:
>  no product info available
> 
> Bad news: wlan0 doesn't find the prism2 driver when I plug in my card. 
>  From /var/log/messages:
> May 29 14:33:05 Sacajawea cardmgr[1487]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs 
> 2>&1'
> May 29 14:33:05 Sacajawea cardmgr[1487]: + FATAL: Module prism2_cs not 
> found.
> 
> I thought I recalled some discussion that the orinoco_cs driver should 
> work for this card, but I can't figure out where to change the driver.
> Changing the "alias wlan0 prism2_cs" line in /etc/modprobe.conf causes 
> my card to no longer be detected at boot (although I don't see any 
> likely errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages).
> 
> On FC1 I had to use the prism2 rpms from 
> http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/ to get pcmcia + wireless working.
> 
> Since FC2 seems to have my pcmcia working without any tinkering, I hoped 
> I could get my wireless up by changing some config files.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can get my wireless up and running?

I'm on my wireless laptop now, at the patio table in the backyard. :) I 
use an Orinoco gold card. If it helps, here's the ouput of lsmod ...

[root at dhcppc5 root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_mixer_oss          13824  2
snd_maestro3           17956  3
snd_ac97_codec         50436  1 snd_maestro3
snd_pcm                68872  1 snd_maestro3
snd_page_alloc          7940  1 snd_pcm
snd_timer              17156  1 snd_pcm
snd                    38372  7 
snd_mixer_oss,snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6112  3 snd
orinoco_cs              6152  1
orinoco                31500  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  6528  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
ds                     12292  5 orinoco_cs
yenta_socket           15104  1
pcmcia_core            46792  3 orinoco_cs,ds,yenta_socket
floppy                 47440  0
sg                     27552  0
scsi_mod               91344  1 sg
microcode               4768  0
dm_mod                 33184  0
uhci_hcd               23708  0
button                  4504  0
battery                 6924  0
asus_acpi               8472  0
ac                      3340  0
ipv6                  184288  10
ext3                  102376  2
jbd                    40216  1 ext3
[root at dhcppc5 root]#

	-ste