Installing new hardware under Linux

[Gaffer]

From Roop:

Suse linux 8 + new user = How do you install new hardware.

He has put in a PCMCIA to PCI bridge and PCMCIA WiFi card and Linux isnt recoginseing it. Any ideas....?

Claire

[tuffer]

Download SuSE 9 and that will recognise it.

Do a search on google and you should be able to get it via ftp for free.

[Bodo]

download SuSE 9.0 here

or browse the SuSE support database for "PCMCIA"

ie.
Problems with PCMCIA in SuSE Linux 8.0
PCMCIA Does Not Work

although I'm not sure, if PCMCIA cards on PCI adapters aren't treated like PCI cards

Building an access point?

[Gaffer]

Thanks guys.

Nothing to do with me - I find windoze hard enough. Just having a play around with it to be honest.

Claire

[squirrelz]

PCMCIA Wireless card support on Linux tends to be a little sparse.

You will need the wireless-tools and pcmcia-cs packages installed, for starters.

If you can find out what chipset the card uses, we may be able to help further, but I spent quite some time a couple of years back getting a wireless connection up on a Mandrake 9.0 box (or perhaps it was Mandrake 8.x then ).

Have a look in /var/log/messages, and it may tell you more, or do "dmesg" after plugging the card in, or use "lspci", or once you have pcmcia-cs installed, "cardctl ident".