Wireless Card Issues In Cacko 1.23

[dougeeebear]

I have seen posts about these issues, but can't seem to find them at the moment.

First:
When I connect/disconnect with my wireless card, I have to remove/insert the card to connect again.

Second:
The signal strength icon in the tray is always blue no matter what the signal strength is.
The yellow, red and green icons never show up when the signal strength is low.

I was wondering if anyone has been able to resolve these issues.

Thanks,
Doug

[bluedevils]

I know for my bluetooth card I do a cardctl eject and cardctl insert.  Put it in a script to run at startup from a suspend.  I can't remember where I put it exactly...

[dougeeebear]

This does the trick manually.
Now it would be great if I could figure out how to make it work automatically each time I disconnect.

[alijames]

I had the same problem which drove me nuts for a few weeks.

Finally solved it with :

Edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts as follows :

Change CARDSUSPEND=y to CARDSUSPEND=n

Works fine on my C3100 with Cacko 1.23 with an AmicomWL1100C-CF

Cheers,

Alistair

[dougeeebear]

Thanks alijames, that works as far as being able to reconnect, but my card keeps blinking after I disconnect.

If I knew where to add "cardctl reset" in one of the config so it would execute each time the wireless is disconnected, that would work perfect.

My card is SMC EZ Connect 2642W

Thanks,
Doug

[xamindar]

I'm not of much help but those are the same problems I had and the reason I went back to the good old Sharp rom.  I'd rather not wear out my cf slot by having to remove and insert all the time.  The network icon always showing blue and the net settings application not working was another thing that no one knew how to fix and I don't think the guy who created cacko cared either.  Good luck in finding answers though.  I had a thread on this a while back but it wasn't much help.

[dougeeebear]

I'm not of much help but those are the same problems I had and the reason I went back to the good old Sharp rom.  I'd rather not wear out my cf slot by having to remove and insert all the time.  The network icon always showing blue and the net settings application not working was another thing that no one knew how to fix
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I'm thinking about switching back too because everything "just works" with the sharp rom, but I like a lot of the extra cacko features and I'm trying to work out some of the bugs first if I can.

[BarryW]

I'm not of much help but those are the same problems I had and the reason I went back to the good old Sharp rom.  I'd rather not wear out my cf slot by having to remove and insert all the time.  The network icon always showing blue and the net settings application not working was another thing that no one knew how to fix
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I'm thinking about switching back too because everything "just works" with the sharp rom, but I like a lot of the extra cacko features and I'm trying to work out some of the bugs first if I can.
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I just pull the card out.  It won't fit in my pouch now that I've modified it for an external antenna.  I don't think the card slot will wear out, unless you keep the Z for years and years.

[Jon_J]

I don't know if this will help, but does this work?

cardctl1 resume

then

cardctl1 suspend

This works for my GPS card
I made two scripts to resume and suspend my GPS card because it is suspended upon insertion.
I created an icon for each, and when I use my GPS on the road, I only need to click one of the icons to resume/suspend my GPS

[dougeeebear]

Jon,

I might give that a go if I had any idea of how to do it

In the meantime, entering "cardctl reset" in the console works.

Thanks,
Doug

[Jon_J]

here's my scripts, if that's what anyone would call them.    
copy and rename to resume.sh & suspend.sh
place in your /bin directory (/home/QtPalmtop/bin/)
Make them Executable.
I made them executable in Tree!Explorer. I cannot remember the correct command to do this, but Tree!Explorer worked.

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#! /bin/bash
cardctl resume
exit
and

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#! /bin/bash
cardctl suspend
exitThen create icons for them using the tab settings app
You may need to change cardctl1 to something else like cardctl0 or just cardctl
I have two CF slots on my C3100, so I think that's why I used "cardctl1"

[deluxe]

I'm not of much help but those are the same problems I had and the reason I went back to the good old Sharp rom.  I'd rather not wear out my cf slot by having to remove and insert all the time.  The network icon always showing blue and the net settings application not working was another thing that no one knew how to fix
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I'm thinking about switching back too because everything "just works" with the sharp rom, but I like a lot of the extra cacko features and I'm trying to work out some of the bugs first if I can.
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I just pull the card out.  It won't fit in my pouch now that I've modified it for an external antenna.  I don't think the card slot will wear out, unless you keep the Z for years and years.
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If I am not mistaken, the CF slot is rated to 100,000 insertions.......same as PCMCIA slots were.

[dougeeebear]

here's my scripts
....
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I tried

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#! /bin/bash
cardctl reset
exitbecause that's what works in the console, but when I click on the icon the screen goes black and I have to turn it off and on and hit cancel and I don't know what else to get the screen back on.
I think I'd better stick with using the console entry.

[xamindar]

I made them executable in Tree!Explorer. I cannot remember the correct command to do this, but Tree!Explorer worked.

chmod +x script_file_name

That will make it executable.

[Jon_J]

here's my scripts
....
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I tried

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#! /bin/bash
cardctl reset
exitbecause that's what works in the console, but when I click on the icon the screen goes black and I have to turn it off and on and hit cancel and I don't know what else to get the screen back on.
I think I'd better stick with using the console entry.
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I don't know if it makes a difference, but I was using "resume" instead of "reset"