Bug 39310

Summary:	Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS loads wrong drivers
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Brian Bianco <geekbri>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor	CC:	latexer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brian Bianco 2004-01-24 22:11:00 UTC

This is a wireless PCMCIA card. 

When the gentoo live cd detects my Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11b it tries to load prism2_cs which is not correct.  This specific card needs wvlan_cs.  To solve this problem i created an entry in wlan-ng.conf for the card and then set the device to it and wvlan_cs.  here is what it looks like.  

device "Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS"
   class "wlan-ng" module "wvlan_cs"

card "Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS"
  manfid 0x0156,0x0002
  bind "wvlan_cs"


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.simply boot the live cd with gentoo dopcmcia
2.then plug the card in, or /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
3.alternativly you could do cardctrl insert <slot>



Expected Results:  
dmesg provides errors

prism2_getcardinfo  errors

Comment 1 Brian Bianco 2004-01-25 17:04:35 UTC

I found out the card does indeed work with the orinoco_cs module, so that is probably the better one to go with, instead of wvlan_cs

Comment 2 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-20 12:21:34 UTC

this is an upstream bug with the kudzu and knoppix people.