I am using the following hardware:
MB: ECS K7S5A
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+
RAM: 256MB DDR RAM
HD: MAXTOR 40.9GB 5400rpm
AGP: ATI XPERT 98 RagePro 8MB
The MB has an integrated SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet. My second interface is a ZoomAir 4105. ZoomAir markets a PCMCIA bus 4100 and a PCI-PCMCIA adapter as the 4105.
The PCI-PCMCIA adapter is based on the TI1410 chipset. The drivers for this adapter were not correct installed until I moddified /etc/pcmcia/pcmcia-param.pl.
$ diff pcmcia-param.pl pcmcia-param.pl.new
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> "Texas Instruments PCI1410" => "irq_mode=0",
It appears that the WiFi card is functions, but the GUI network interface menu with the green light on for wlan0, reports the interface down and the ip/net as ???.???.???.???/???.???.???.???.
ifconfig reports:host:/root # ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:95:38:88:19
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1275 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1384 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:595 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdc00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3431 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3431 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:36:01:AF:9A
inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:376 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x100
If you click the light again, it changes to red and shuts down wlan0. These behaviors were all observed using wlan0 as a Station with dymanic ip allocation. The behavior is different for static and maybe for the access point too.
-scotts