wlan pcmcia probs

[Stephan Berg]

Hello Linux-Users,

I have a problem installing my typhoon speednet wlan pcmcia-card 
on my dell inspiron 8200 notebook. I'm using fedora core 1. The 
card uses an atmel chipset. So I tried to install the 
atmelwlandriver from sourceforge.net. I think that the driver is 
installed and that the card is found by my system.

"iwconfig" shows the following:

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[root at localhost root]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

atml0     ATMEL REVD  ESSID:"WLAN"
           Mode:Managed  Channel:9  Access Point: 00:30:F1:7E:7D:71
           Bit Rate:11Mb/s
           RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
           Encryption key:off
           Link Quality:40  Signal level:53  Noise level:0
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
---- schnapp ----

I'm not sure, but for a linux-newbie like me this looks brilliant.

"cardctl ident" also shows information about my card.

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[root at localhost root]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
   no product info available
Socket 1:
   product info: "ATMEL", "AT76C502AR_D"
   manfid: 0x0000, 0x0000
   function: 6 (network)
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I don't know if it is important but I also copied parts of the 
following. In this the driver/module or whatever for my card is 
shown (pcmf502rd).

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[root at localhost root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      9060   0  (autoclean)
parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ds                      8680   2  [pcmf502rd]
yenta_socket           13664   2
pcmcia_core            57216   0  [pcmf502rd ds yenta_socket]
ipt_REJECT              4344   1  (autoclean)
ipt_state               1080   1  (autoclean)
ip_conntrack           29256   1  (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter          2444   1  (autoclean)
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Typing less +F /var/log/messages I can see changes when I remove 
the card.

Now I don't know how to get my network started. I tried to use 
the graphical interface "network", but here I couldn't find the 
driver pcmf502rd. All the other drivers didn't work.
Thanks for every help.

Please notice that I am a linux-newbie. So the more detailled 
help the better. I already tried to read and understand the man 
pages, but I'm not very familiar with linux and these pages 
didn't help me a lot.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Stephan