How to add a new wireless card

This page describe how to add a new wireless card to your system.

• Open “Control Panel” and select “PC/CF Cards”.
• If the card is not recognized, open “Assign Driver” from “Card” menu.
• Select a driver from drop down list, click OK and wait some seconds until the driver is loaded.
• If you see “State: ready” and “Driver: <your selected driver>” you successfully installed the new card.

For example purposes, the card being referenced will be an ORIGO Wireless Compact Flash Card.

• First of all, put the card into the CF slot (or PCMCIA if you have a CF-PCMCIA adapter).
• Next, get yourself to a shell prompt, and become root.
• Issue a cardctl ident command, your output should be something like this:

Socket 0:
  product info: "WLAN", "11Mbps_PC-Card_3.0", "ISL37100P", "Eval-RevA"
  manfid: 0x000b, 0x7100
  function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
  no product info available

What we are interested in is the manfid: 0x000b, 0x7100 line.

• Now, lets take a copy of the pcmcia config file:

cp /etc/pcmcia/config /root/config-pcmcia.orig 

• Edit the file with your favourite editor and search for Wireless network adapters.
• Insert a new card by adding the following:

card "Origo 802.11 Wireless Adapter"
manfid 0x000b, 0x7100
bind "orinoco_cs"

• Save the file as config-pcmcia.new
• Now, lets copy that file back to the PCMCIA config directory

cp ./config-pcmcia.new /etc/pcmcia/config 

• (If prompted, say yes to overwrite the existing config file)
• Now, we need to restart the PCMCIA subsystem:

/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart 

• You should now have successfully added the ORIGO card.