Grr.. pcmcia

I swear this is 10 times harder to setup the second time around :) I
didn't have such problems the first go round.. beginner's luck.

The situation:
Preconditions: Fairly virgin install of intimate.

I want to setup the wireless networking stuff up more robustly, so the
first thing I do is 'apt-get wireless-tools'. Ok, I have iwconfig,
that's great. But, the defaults for the wireless setup usually come
from a place /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. Well, there's not even an
/etc/pcmcia folder. Drat. I poke around to see if the wireless
settings are stored in some non standard place, but after poking around
for a while, I can't find anything.

So, I then decide that I want to install pcmcia package to finish the
job of getting wireless fully setup. So, apt-get pcmcia-cs .. ok that
works, there was some warnings about setting this up while pcmcia cards
installed, but oh well.. I need that microdrive in there to do anything
:)

After pcmcia is setup, the folder structure is there, but now everything
else is hosed. Everytime the wavelan card does anything, all these
debug messages are shot out all over the place:

wvlan_cs: hcf_action(HCF_ACT_INT_OFF) returned 0x1
wvlan_cs: hcf_service_nic() returned 0x1 RscInd 0x1
-> wvlan_rx(eth0)
wvlan_cs: Receiving 0x4a octets
<- wvlan_rx()
wvlan_cs: hcf_service_nic() returned 0x0 RscInd 0x1
wvlan_cs: hcf_action(HCF_ACT_INT_ON) returned 0x0
-> wvlan_tx(eth0)
wvlan_cs: Sending 0x4a octets
wvlan_cs: hcf_action(HCF_ACT_INT_OFF) returned 0x1
wvlan_cs: hcf_service_nic() returned 0x8 RscInd 0x1
wvlan_cs: Transmission successful completed
wvlan_cs: hcf_action(HCF_ACT_INT_ON) returned 0x0
wvlan_cs: hcf_send() returned 0x0

I'm also wondering why the heck it's using wvlan_cs as the driver
instead of orinoco_cs? Is the pcmcia debian package old?

Other things that go wrong after setting up the pcmcia package:

Control: C3BB317F Table: C3BB317F DAC: 00000015
Process cardmgr (pid: 282, stackpage=c298f000)
Stack: (0xc298fc60 to 0xc2990000)
fc60: c002b918 c491296c 60000013 ffffffff 00000000 00000c00 00000100
00000000
fc80: 00000000 00000000 00031b28 00000018 c298fcb4 c298fca0 c49134ac
c49128e8
..... a bunch more of that...
fca0: c0186402 c03ac760 c298fcc4 c298fcb8 c4913618 c4913420 c298ff88
 r4 = 00031B28
Code: e3a02008 eb001b7c e3500000 1a000017 (e5d42000)
/etc/rc2.d/S20pcmcia: line 185: 282 Segmentation fault
/sbin/cardmgr $CARDMGR_OPTS

I'm about ready to install the pcmcia-cs stuff from source, don't know
if that's going to make things worse or not.

Does anybody have a repeatable routine for doing what I want to do? I
can't be the only one, can I ? I'll reformat again if I've gimped
things up too much already. Even an anecdote or two about why this is
happening would be good! :)

Thomas

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Thomas O'Connell               Georgia Institute of Technology
Aware Home Lab Manager                    College of Computing
www.cc.gatech.edu/~thomas           www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri