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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:43 AM,  <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Message from Steven
>  ===================
>
> Sindi wrote:
>  >
>  > Steven may have set it up to use pcnet_cs by default
>  > for all network cards,
>
>  Yes, BL3 comes with only one PCMCIA network module
>  (pcnet) and it defaults to that module for all
>  network cards.  Most of the 1990s PCMCIA network
>  cards used pcnet, so if you are using a 1990s card
>  the chances of BL3 automatically finding your card
>  are good.  With more recent PCMCIA network cards
>  the chances are not so good -- probably you will
>  need a different module (which hopefully you will
>  find at the BL3 site) and you will need to edit
>  /etc/pcmcia/config to install that module.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Steven
>

Ok, I've tried putting all those driver files into /pcmcia again. This
time I got slightly further. I still got the errors --

pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net address for io base 0x240
Apr 10 18:09:25 cardmgr[23]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: No such device
Apr 10 18:09:25 cardmgr[23]: exiting

The config file now reads for the drivers:
device "orinoco_cs"
 class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"


card "NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC Card"
 manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
 bind "orinoco_cs"

But still no joy. But after googling for a while, I came across some
alternative lines for the card/manfid;

(found here: 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/netgear-ma401-redhat-8.0-43450/
)

card "Netgear MA401RA"
manfid 0x000b, 0x7300
bind "orinoco_cs"

So I tried this instead and it almost worked. Looking through dmesg
this pulled in orinoco and orinoco_cs, but then crashed *badly* (in
dmesg) --

Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP : 0010[<c18246ee>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
..
..
There are also call trace values in dmesg, finally ending with
"segmentation fault" right at the end.

Wonder what's going on? x.x !

ljones