[Madwifi-users] automatic configuration of PC Card?

[Hank B. <hb...@gm...>]

This is strictly not on topic for this list but perhaps someone can
help or point me to the right resource.

I've got a Netgear WG511T card working well but would like to fully
automate startup and shutdown (on insertion and removal) if possible.

cardctl tells me
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redwood:/var/log# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000",
"Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00"
  manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
  function: 6 (network)
########################################
and lspci -v
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0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4b00
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at 20800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
########################################

I've added the following sections to /etc/pcmcia/config:
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#-- my add for madwifi
device "madwifi_cb"
  class "madwifi"  module "wlan", "ath_hal", "ath_pci"

card "Netgear WG511T Atheros 802.11a/b/g adapter"
  manfid  0x0271, 0x0012
  bind "madwifi_cb"
########################################

(I know that this is the configuration that the cardmgr uses because
it complained about syntax errors. ;)

When I plug the card in, no modules are loaded. Log messages from
kern.log for insertion and removal respectively are:

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Nov 28 10:30:54 redwood kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 3): vendor 0x168c,
device 0x0013
Nov 28 10:30:54 redwood kernel: PCI: Enabling device 03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)

Nov 28 10:31:00 redwood kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 3)
########################################

First off I was surprised to see that the vendor ID reported on
insertion didn;t match the manfid reported by cardctl, but perhaps
these are not related. I've tried both in the config file and neither
seems to get the modules loaded. I'd appreciate any suggestions to
resolve this.

BTW, my syntax to load the modules was not exactly the same as what
was indicated in the README. I use the following commands to bring up
the card and network:

	modprobe wlan
	modprobe ath_hal
	modprobe ath_pci
	iwconfig ath0 essid "<myapID>"
#	iwconfig ath0 key <mykey>

	ifconfig ath0 up
	dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.ath0.pid ath0
	route add default gw 192.168.100.1

kernel 2.4.26 using pcmcia-cs 3.2.5 on a Debian testing system

thanks!
hank

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