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Posted: July 02 2007,13:33 QUOTE
Hello again everyone,

I've found a possible solution to my WPC11 wireless laptop issue BUT I can not implement due to DSL issues that I don't understand...

Here is the LINK to the solution I thought for sure this would work! This is a similar laptop to the one I have (toshiba 305cds).  BUT everyone one of the simple instructions to edit a file, wlan-ng.conf, modules.conf is hit with a read-only warning... nothing fixed.

I got some help on the dsl-irc, with the instruction to remove wlan-ng and re-copy from KNOPPIX, then edit. This worked to let me edit but the edit is lost on reboot, even with adding the editted wlan-ng to the filetools file!

Can someone help me make the edits to these files? or point me to a gui that will allow me to do it?  Help!  Please.

Here is my original post for help with my laptop OLD
POST (NO ANSWERS; lots of back info)Here is the LINK to the solution
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Posted: July 02 2007,16:17 QUOTE
Please specify the version for this card.

The generic WPC11 is not enough. They have changed the chipset many times. My WPC11 v4 is not a prism but a realtek and I use ndiswrapper with it.

You can use the DSL control panel and select PCMCIA tool and look at the ident and info tabs.

If you card is not seen, you might need a boot option of pci=assign-busses
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Posted: July 02 2007,19:30 QUOTE
OH! Sorry its the WPC11 v3, prism style.
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Posted: July 02 2007,20:47 QUOTE
A prism card should work with the Prism2 GUI from the control panel as shown in the Wiki.
The prism2.sh script does the modprobe of the prism_cs module which is effectively what that howto does.
Are you sure your card is seen? Use the pcmcia tool ident and info tabs.

You may also want to boot with the nodhcp option so that no network setup is attempted until you run the GUI.

Be sure to enter the WEP key as colon separated pairs. Once you have enter the information in the GUI it is saved in /opt/myprism2.sh

You can then save that script and/or add the command to /opt/bootllocal.sh for backup.
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Posted: July 02 2007,22:01 QUOTE
I'll check this evening if my card is being seen correctly.  I know that when I boot up, I get a ndiswrapper message and lots of wlanctl-ng errors.

I eddited my grub menu.lst to give me only dsl 800*600 and windows boot options, and added the nodhcp to the dsl boot.  I still see the above errors though.

I'll post/edit once I check the pcmcia.
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