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#1 2005-04-13 23:19:59

vladtepes
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toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

like its mentioned in the topic titel, i am a proud owner of the toshiba portege 4000. Well, there are just a view problems...

the main thing is, that i dont get the integrated wireless lan card to work.
it has a wireless 11mbps mini pci card integrated. the first strange thing that i noticed was, that the card was noticed as pcmcia card (placed in socket 0...cardctl toled me that)
hwd -s shows up a TOSHIBA Wireless LAN card; module: unknown

so i loaded the pcmcia_core, orinoco_cs, orinoco, hermes, yenta_socket modules.
after that:
iwconfig shows that no wireless devices are available

i followed the instruction mentioned on that page:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html
...but this still didn't work.

all this things i tried with the standard 2.6IDE kernel.
so i decided to test the card by booting knoppix...
-> at the bootscreen of knoppix, the card was mentioned as "Intersil PRISM2 Wireless LAN card"...the modules got loaded automatically and after it had startet, iwconfig showed a full configured and working wireless lan device at eth0.

after that, i decided to compile my own kernel, but everytime i did this, it didnt work. after a kernel is compiled (with a view warnings; btw: it takes about 2 hours everytime :? ) i trie to boot the system...

->most time the system didnt finish the boot because of strange errors (mainly in the hotplug deamon).
but sometimes it bootet up...problem: the wireless card still didnt work.

so, at the moment i dont know what to do...iam just a bit before i will test gentoo or debian  sad  sad


the second problem is with a module called shpchp. (pci hotplug?)
the hotplug deamon wont load it correctly...
(...missing kernel or user modul... thats the error message)
is this related to the wireless problem? (because the card is mini pci?!)


thats all, and i hope someone will read this wired thoughts of mine (i am sorry for that ;-) ) and will help me.

SOLUTION:
i forgot to write the eth1 as possible device in rc.conf


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#2 2005-04-14 17:57:00

vladtepes
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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

nobody any idea?

sorry for pushing so fast, but i am in a hurry,...if i cant use arch, i have to use a different distribution, but i dont want that. soo, maybe i will send the notebook back.

so please help me!
sad


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#3 2005-04-14 18:11:57

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Well, exactly what steps did you take to start up the wireless?
According to numerous web pages both orinioco_cs and wlan_cs work... modprobe either, figure out the device (ethX or wlanX) one then simply try:

# iwconfig <interface> essid "My Essid Name"
# ifconfig <interface> up
# dhcpcd <interface>

according to one page:

There is an `on' / `off' switch at the `front', RHS, near the `Portege' sticker to the right of the mouse buttons.
CHECK THAT THE WiFi IS TURNED ON!

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#4 2005-04-14 18:24:11

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

first, thanks for your answer.
the wifi is turned on...knoppix is detecting it.

first i installed the normal 2.6IDE kernel, and loaded the orinoco_cs and the already above mentioned modules.
but their was(is) no wireless device.
ifconfig shows only the also integrated lan card (works with eepro100 module)

iwconfig says that their is no wireless device.
if i do a:

iwconfig eth0 

it says:

no wireless device

if i do a:

iwconfig eth1 (wlan0, ath0)

it says:

no such device

i dont use dhcp, but i think that doenst matter because the card isnt mentioned at all.
ok ok, cardctrl mentiones it as a pcmcia wlan card,...

it seems that no modul wants to get "accociated" with the card.

after that, i tried to compile my own kernel, but i had no success.

EDIT:
i cant load the wlan_cs module..."its not found"...


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#5 2005-04-14 18:33:24

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

it's in the wlan-ng package I think (pacman -Ss wlan)

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#6 2005-04-14 18:53:59

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

i installed wlan-ng26, but the wlan_cs module ist still not found.


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#7 2005-04-14 21:12:59

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

the strange thing is,
if i do a:

./cardctl ident

i get:

Socket 0
   product info: "TOSHIBA", "Wireless LAN Card", "Version 01.01", ""
   manfi: 0x0156, 0x0002
   function: 6 (network)
.
.
.

so, the card is recognized...
but how can i tell to use thsi card in the pcmcia slot as a wireless network card?!?!?!


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#8 2005-04-14 21:25:20

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

The entries I made in /etc/pcmcia/config are:

device "orinoco_cs"
  class "network" module "orinoco_cs"
...
card "TOSHIBA Wireless LAN Card"
  #version "TOSHIBA", "Wireless LAN Card"
  manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
  bind "orinoco_cs"

You can use either the manfid or the version method of identification but not both, unless you have a much more recent version of the pcmcia utils than I do (3.1.13). /sbin/cardctl ident should give you the right entries if mine don't match. The symlink that I had to make was for the orinoco_cs.o module. It needs to appear in the pcmcia/ subdirectory of the kernel /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ directory. The directory is full of symlinks only, so it should be obvious what to do. The orinoco_cs driver appears to depend on the orinoco.o and hermes.o kernel modules, as well as the pure pcmcia modules.

Try that... *shrug*

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#9 2005-04-14 21:41:14

vladtepes
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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

sorry, but could you please explain it a bit?!

where do i have to put the symlink?
under:

/lib/modules/2.6.11.3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/pcmcia

???

the installed kernel is:
2.6.11.3-ARCH


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#10 2005-04-14 21:44:46

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

do this:

# find /usr/modules/2.6.11.3-ARCH/ orinoco_cs*
# ln -s <location of orinoco_cs> <pcmcia modules dir>

I don't know if that step's needed... maybe try just adding the pcmcia config stuff first....

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#11 2005-04-14 21:50:57

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

i already added the pcmcia stuff...
then i did a:

./rc.d/pcmcia restart

but iwconfig still says that their are noch wireless devices...

i dont have the directiories:

/usr/modules/...

??

if i just do a:

find orinoco_cs*

i get:

no such file or directory

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#12 2005-04-14 22:12:09

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

again i found something that is strange...
if i do a:

./wlan-ng start wlan0

i get:

FATAL: Module not found
Error: Device wlan0 does not seem to be present
Make sure you've inserted the appropriate
modules or that your modules.conf file contains
the appropriate aliase(s)
wlanctl-ng: No such device
error: Autojoin indicated failure!
usage: ./network [action] [device name]
 actions: start check stop suspend resume

for every othe device (eth0/1,wlan1/2 usw...) i dont get that message...


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#13 2005-04-14 22:15:41

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

vladtepes wrote:

i dont have the directiories:

/usr/modules/...

sorry, my fault it's /lib/modules/...

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#14 2005-04-15 09:53:53

vladtepes
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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

ok, i did.
now i have a symbol link under

lib/modules/2.6.11.3-ARCH/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/

to orinoco_cs.ko and orinoco.ko

then i restartet the pcmcia and the network...
iwconfig gives still, that their are no wireless extensions. 

:-(


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#15 2005-04-15 15:17:42

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

hmmm very odd - what does lsmod look like?

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#16 2005-04-17 19:42:53

vladtepes
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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

Greetings,

sorry that i answer so late, but i didnt had the chance over the weekend.

lsmod shows every modul that should be their i think (would be awful to typ everything)
looking for something specific??

is it possible, that the problem is lying by the shpchp modul?!
because its a part of pci hotplug, and pcmcia cards (or mini pci) need this hotplug feature to be inizialized...or not?!

EDIT:
i solved it...
but i dont want to tell what the problem was...its a really embarassing thing :oops:  :oops:

i just forgot to write eth1 as possible network device in rc.conf!
sorry,...and thanks to you phrakture, for trying to help an idiot! ;-) :-)


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#17 2005-05-19 13:28:22

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Re: toshiba portege 4000 and wireless...[solved]

So in your rc.conf you know have eth0="dhcp" and eth1="dhcp" for example.

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