wireless card not being detected

[eroica]

hello,

problem here is since i upgraded kernel to 2.6.17 & hal to 0.5.7-12.mdk2006.0.mde on bootup my Intersil Prism2 mini-pci wireless card running Mandriva 2006 on Toshiba Satellite 1410 is recognized only about 1/2 the time. The other half I see that it refers to my wireless card as eth1 instead of eth0 and says cant find ant config file for device.I see a listing for pcmciautils-007-4mdk. Is this an update to pcmcia-cs that might solve my problem? The reason i say this is in /messages log i see this entry:

 

localhost kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: see [url=http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html]http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kern...cia/pcmcia.html[/url] for details.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: eth0: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)

 

It says interface will be removed unless upgrade to new tools

See also boot log:

 

Sep  2 18:17:30 localhost network: Shutting down interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Shutting down loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost ifup: /bin/true
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost ifup: e100 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Sep  2 18:17:32 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
Sep  2 18:17:32 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:32 localhost network: Bringing up interface sit0:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Shutting down interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Shutting down loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost ifup: /bin/true
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost ifup: e100 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost network: Bringing up interface sit0:  succeeded

 

why does it refer to e100 driver for wireless eth0 interface?

Any other suggestions welcome ...thanx

[ianw1974]

Most likely because you have a network card in your machine that uses an Intel network card driver - the e100. This is your wired network card. Your wireless should be wlan0 or similar.

 

I'm also moving the post to the MDE forums, because you're using a modified version of Mandriva now.