PCMCIA (was Re: [plug] airsnort)

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, quoth Adam Hewitt:

> I can modprobe the module but it does nothing, it doesn't seem to bind
> with the card??

PCMCIA works totally different to what you'd expect.
You can't just modprobe a module and expect it to work, it's all handled
by cardmgr.

You need to:

cardctl ident

to find out what the card reports itself as
eg:
Socket 1:
  product info: "Cabletron", "RoamAbout 802.11 DS", "Version 01.01", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)

and then map that to the orinoco_cs driver in /etc/pcmcia/config or
/etc/pcmcia/*.conf

eg:
card "Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS"
  version "Cabletron", "RoamAbout 802.11 DS"
  bind "orinoco_cs"

and then restart PCMCIA (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart)

If it still won't work, check /var/log/syslog (on Debian) for cardmgr
entries.

 - Matt