make module errors

[jtruong]

I'm trying to get my linksys pcmcia wpc11 card to work under redhat 8.0. So i installed the wlan-ng and pcmcia_cs. I made the required changes in the wlan-ng.conf and wlan-ng.opts files.

What i'm not sure about is what to select in xconfig. I think i got most of them right but i still don't see my card as part of the pcmcia card lists...

Anyway, i build a new kernel and now i want to "make modules" but it says that /usr/src/linux/drivers/addon/cipe has compile errors. I went to that folder and tried a makefile there but i get errors in module.c saying KER_ERR and some other variable are not recognized. And when i comment these out, i get tons of errors in device.c file.

It's been a while since i've been trying to get my network set up so any help is greatly appreciated, like links to howtos or whatnot you feel are relevant.

thanks,
jtruong

[mdwatts]

Is recompiling the kernel a requirement when installing the pcmcia wpc11 wireless card? From what I gather, you only need to compile and install the wpc11 modules/drivers. Of course I could be wrong about that.

See if these 2 wireless tutorials from the 'How I Did It' forum help.

http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55310&highlight=wpc11

http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64664&highlight=wireless

And this G4L search for 'wpc11 tutorial' (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=wpc11+tutorial) help.

Gotta try wireless one of these days.

[jtruong]

I've made many changes over various files but i don't know if i'm suppose to restart redhat 8.0 or something else. Either way, my wpc11 is still not working.

It is attached a pci card so maybe i'm installing the wrong drivers or modprobing the wrong prism2 type.

Also, i've changed wherever i could find the files to configure my ip addresses and all but whenever i do ifconfig, it still gives the wrong one.

And to top it off, i can't seem to get system settings "packages" to work. It would load up then close...weird.

jerome

[jtruong]

Alright, i've found out that my /etc/pcmcia/ folder was supposed to be installed in /usr/src/pcmcia_cs/etc/

When that done, my wpc11 was recognize at boot up as eth0. I still can't activate my card though, nor log on the www.

Are there other folders that i've misinstalled? The thing was that i just rpm'd the wlan-ng.rpm files for redhat 8 and specified the right pcmcia_cs folder, i don't understand how the files got to /etc. Are they supposed to be there?

Also, my wpc11 is connected with a pci adapter (wdt11), do i need to install drivers for that too? What do modprobe in my rc.local?

When i do lsmod, i get a pcmcia_core used by 0, and parport used by parport_pc or vice versa, i don't remember.

According to README, i'm supposed to have pcmcia_core, i82365, and ds. When i try to modprobe the last two, i get an error regarding insmod. I can't figure out what the problem is.

jtruong