Wireless Network

[zmsc1]

I'm having difficulty getting my 3COM wireless network card working under Suse 9.1. (It works fine under Windows, so I know it isn't a hardware problem.)

The Prism54 module loads and I can set up the parameters correctly, but though I've set an IP address manually, when I do ifconfig, I see no IP address.

I have a 3COM wireless ADSL switch router, and I've put the 3COM PC card in my ancient Toshiba Tecra 8000. This set-up works perfectly with W2000 - but of course I'd much prefer to get Linux going.

Anyone using a similar config that can help?

[Dolda2000]

Does the card show up when you do "ifconfig -a"? In that case, it might be that all you have to do is just a "ifconfig eth0 up".

[zmsc1]

Does the card show up when you do "ifconfig -a"? In that case, it might be that all you have to do is just a "ifconfig eth0 up".

ifconfig -a shows interfaces lo and sit0, but not the real interface card.

Suse has a device manager called suseplugger, and that recognises the card and loads a driver called prism54, which appears to be the right one. It also shows the card status as available yes, configured no - although I have configured it.

Further diagnostic ideas most welcome.

[Dolda2000]

It's rather strange that suseplugger would display the card as avaible, because if it's not listed by ifconfig -a, then it's not available at all.

Try unloading and reloading the prism54 module and check the kernel messages for any clues, like this:

rmmod prism54
modprobe prism54
dmesg | tail -30

[zmsc1]

rmmod prism54
modprobe prism54
dmesg | tail -30

[/quote]

Thanks,

That gives interesting result ....

Unloaded Prism54 driver
Loaded Prism54 driver, version 1.1
ACPI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:01:00.0
eth0: could not install IRQ handler
prism54: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -5

.... so that seems to be the problem! Any idea what I need to do?

Stuart