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PCMCIA Core fails to load after madwifi install

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I am very new to Linux so bear with me. I installed Linux sarge on my old Compaq Armada 1750. I used a PCMCIA ethernet card and all was well. I wanted to use a wireless card with the PC so I installed Madwifi. Now when I boot I get message that PCMCIA Core failed to load and neither the wireless card or the previously working PCMCIA ehthernet card is working. Can anyone help me fix this?

Thanks.

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Submitted by pinniped on Tue, 2006-10-31 16:11.

You have to tell us exactly what you did when you installed MadWiFi. Then we have to find out why PCMCIA core is not loading. If you remember what drivers it uses you can try to manually load the drivers via:

modprobe drivername (actually driver names end in .so or .ko - but ignore the .so/.ko part)

You can look for more information on failure in /var/log/ - the kern, dmesg, syslog, and debug files may all contain bits of information on what went wrong.

One thing that sometimes happens is that a faulty driver will load without first loading other drivers it needs - and it also prevents other drivers from loading. I say 'faulty' meaning it doesn't behave well - not that it won't work when loaded.

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I am new to this Linux stuff

Submitted by Andrew on Tue, 2006-10-31 17:14.

I am new to this Linux stuff so bear with me. I installed Madwifi using the process described in Wiki. I added a line to sources.lst to point apt to the archive containing the madwifi driver then I did

#apt-get update
#apt-get install madwifi-source
It ran and then gave me an error and told me to run someting (I think it was something like #dpkg -f install but I don't remeber. It completed succesfully.

Then I did
#apt-get install madwifi-tools
#m-a prepare
#m-a a-i madwifi

One other thing. I did get a warning that something was trying to remove the kernal and it asked me if I wanted to do that (warning me that unless I knew exactly what I was doing it would hose the system). I answered no that question.

Perhaps reloading the pcmcia drivers would help? I know I messed up somewhere but I am too new at this to know where.

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