Setting up the Lucent WaveLAN IEEE ISA/PCMCIA card in Red Hat 9

Just helped someone set one of these up. Edit /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, set PCIC=i82365 and PCMCIA=yes. Add a line to /etc/modules.conf reading options i82365 extra_sockets=1. (Setting this in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia’s PCIC_OPTS variable doesn’t work because of the /etc/init.d/pcmcia initscript.) service pcmcia start and you should be in business.

You may now want to have the interface come fully up at boot. Set up an ifcfg-ethN file for it in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts using the normal variables (maybe DEVICE=ethN, ONBOOT=yes, and BOOTPROTO=dhcp for a minimal DHCPed device) and include some of the variables from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless, which documents the variables it uses at in the comments at the beginning of the script. You may also need a line like TYPE=Wireless in the ifcfg-ethN file.