Can you post the output of:

#ls -l /proc/net

Thanks,
-M

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Harry Mangalam wrote:

> My comments echo Bjorn's exactly and !!!!!!!!!!! ... it works. I'll still have to fiddle with the actual driver but it talks to the access point (a D-LINK 1000AP, if anyone cared) !!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I get this on /var/log/message:
>
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andyfasta.fh-dortmund.de>
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0180-0x01bf
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth0
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 40 05 de cf d0
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: wvlan_cs: This is LinkSys/D-Link card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-(
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: You may want report firmare revision (0x7) and what the card support.
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: I will try to make it work, but you should look for a better driver.
> Mar 11 07:49:39 bike kernel: bridge-eth0: set IFF_PROMISC
>
>
>
> and it does load the wavelan driver, not the D-Link/prism driver:
>
> 2 % lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> wvlan_cs 22560 1 <<<<<<<<<<<
> ds 6408 2 [wvlan_cs]
> i82365 22296 2
> pcmcia_core 45440 0 [wvlan_cs ds i82365]
> vmnet 16160 5
> vmppuser 5508 0 (unused)
> parport_pc 7300 0 [vmppuser]
> parport 7312 0 [vmppuser parport_pc]
> vmmon 17728 1
> soundcore 2596 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> nfsd 142372 8 (autoclean)
> lockd 30696 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
> sunrpc 52292 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
> nls_cp437 3872 1 (autoclean)
> msdos 5372 1 (autoclean)
> fat 29280 1 (autoclean) [msdos]
>
> and in fact it still refuses to load the prism driver, even explicitly after unloading the wvlan driver, citing the same unresolved symbols that I mentioned before:
>
> 2 % insmod p80211
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/p80211.o
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/p80211.o: unresolved symbol netlink_kernel_create
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/p80211.o: unresolved symbol netlink_broadcast
>
>
> !!BUT!! I CAN use it (albeit vurrah vurrah slowly - ~15kB/s via ftp). !!! and even slow is better than no.
>
> Thanks!
> Harry
>
>
> "Bjørn Mork" wrote:
> >
> > "Mark S. Mathews" <marklinux-wlan.com> writes:
> >
> > > I've put a pre5 version of 0.1.8 on the web site at
> > > http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre5.tar.gz . It has been
> > > lightly tested on 2.2.13, 2.2.18, and 2.4.2 but still needs some shaking
> > > out. The reason its -pre5 is because of some code I sent out to patch
> > > submitters so they could look at how their patches were integrated.
> >
> > Two quick notes:
> >
> > 1) I couldn't compile it without this change:
> > --- linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre5/src/include/wlan/version.h.old Sun Mar 11 21:33:47 2001
> > +++ linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre5/src/include/wlan/version.h Sun Mar 11 21:37:27 2001
> > -43,6 +43,6
> > *
> > * --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > */
> > -#define WLAN_RELEASE \"0.1.8-pre5\"
> > +#define WLAN_RELEASE "\"0.1.8-pre5\""
> > #define WLAN_RELEASE_CODE 0x000108
> >
> > 2) /etc/conf.modules is deprecated. You should use /etc/modules.conf
> >
> > > Look at the CHANGES file for a mostly complete list of updates.
> >
> > I was looking for 802.11b ad-hoc mode. Still not supported?
> >
> > Bjørn
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>

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