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    SMC 2532W-B wireless NIC not detected -- pcmcia config

    Hi all-
    I have an SMC 2532W-B pcmcia wNIC that is supported by the linux-wlan-ng drivers. However, it is not recognized at boot because it is not found in the /etc/pcmcia/config-2.4 file (at least I think this is the problem). I get an 'unsupported card [57]" error on boot.

    cardctl ident gives me all the correct product and manfid info on my card, but how can I edit the config file? do I have to remaster the CD or is there a way to 'fake' knoppix into using ramdisk for this file? Is there some other way to force the card to initialize since the drivers should support it?

    Thanks, Matt

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    This is the method I'm using to rty to manually install my wireless NIC. Anyone know why it doesn't work?

    1: Copy /etc/pcmcia/config and config.opts to /ramdisk/home

    2: use cardctl ident to get info on the card. add the following to /ramdisk/home/config:
    device "prism2_cs"
    class "network" module "prism2_cs"

    card "SMC2532W-B WliteConnect Wireless Adapter"
    version "SMC", "SMC2532W-B WliteConnect Wireless Adapter"
    manfid 0xd601, 0x0005
    bind "prism2_cs"

    3: run modprobe prism2_cs

    4: run cardmgr -c /ramdisk/home to force the new config file to be used

    The error I get is:
    cardmgr[1558] open_sock(socket 0) failed: Device or Resource busy.

    The NIC is still not available... Anyone know what this error could be pointing to? Does this method have any possibility of even working? thanks!

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    Anyone

    Anyone get this card working?

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    moxieman,

    I got this card to work in my toshiba laptop this past Saturday. It took me about a week to figure it out. Although I am a newbie in linux.

    I am using Knoppix 3.3 installed on the hard drive.

    I found out that the sample information on the SMC site uses a different manfid than what my card has. I used cardctl -ident and that gave me the correct id. Then I looked in the amtel config file in /etc/pcmcia and saw the driver they were binding to is not the standard pcmcia_cs or wavelan_cs. So I edited the conf file in /etc/pcmcia just like the sample at the SMC site suggested, but substituted the correct manfid and driver in the appropriate places.

    I rebooted the machine and BAM it worked like a champ.

    Up until I figured that out I downloaded drivers (found that none were needed). I recompiled the kernel 3 or 4 times (not needed).

    And in the end Knoppix already has the driver, the kernel is already set correctly and all I had to do was edit the proper config files.

    Hope this helped.

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