Debian and Wireless PCI card

I have this very generic wireless PCI card. I couldn't even find the
name of the manufacturer on it. So I used the FCC ID to track it down
as an ADMtek wireless card. I'm pretty sure it's compatible with the
ADM11 standard, but i'm not sure.

So I downloaded a driver from www.ADMtek.com, compiled it, etc., and
it gave me this file called 8211.o, and assured me that it was the
module I needed to load for the PCI card.

I type insmod 8211.o, and it tells me
"
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device . Please try using
pci=biosirq. : I/O region (0x0@0x0) too small, aborting
8211.o: init_module: No such device
"
I dont know how to try pci=biosirq.
Beyond that, I'm completely lost. Does anyone have any experience with
Debian and this card, or setting up wireless cards like this?
Thanks,
Uri

Uri wrote:

> I have this very generic wireless PCI card. I couldn't even find the
> name of the manufacturer on it. So I used the FCC ID to track it down
> as an ADMtek wireless card. I'm pretty sure it's compatible with the
> ADM11 standard, but i'm not sure.
>
> So I downloaded a driver from www.ADMtek.com, compiled it, etc., and
> it gave me this file called 8211.o, and assured me that it was the
> module I needed to load for the PCI card.
>
> I type insmod 8211.o, and it tells me
> "
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device . Please try using
> pci=biosirq. : I/O region (0x0@0x0) too small, aborting
> 8211.o: init_module: No such device
> "
> I dont know how to try pci=biosirq.
> Beyond that, I'm completely lost. Does anyone have any experience with
> Debian and this card, or setting up wireless cards like this?
> Thanks,
> Uri

I don't know nothing about your card, but concerning the pci=biosirq you
need to add the following line to your kernel configuration in /etc
lilo.conf :

append="pci=biosirq"

So if you have a section at the end that looks like this (as an example):

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18
label=linux
read-only

....it should look later like this:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18
label=linux
read-only
append="pci=biosirq"

Run "lilo" as user root and reboot your box.

Regards, Joerg.

Uri wrote:

> I have this very generic wireless PCI card. I couldn't even find the
> name of the manufacturer on it. So I used the FCC ID to track it down
> as an ADMtek wireless card. I'm pretty sure it's compatible with the
> ADM11 standard, but i'm not sure.
>
> So I downloaded a driver from www.ADMtek.com, compiled it, etc., and
> it gave me this file called 8211.o, and assured me that it was the
> module I needed to load for the PCI card.
>
> I type insmod 8211.o, and it tells me
> "
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device . Please try using
> pci=biosirq. : I/O region (0x0@0x0) too small, aborting
> 8211.o: init_module: No such device
> "
> I dont know how to try pci=biosirq.
> Beyond that, I'm completely lost. Does anyone have any experience with
> Debian and this card, or setting up wireless cards like this?
> Thanks,
> Uri

First of all, it is recommended you use modprobe to load/unload modules
instead of using insmod/rmmod. The 'pci=biosirq' would be placed at the
end of the 'kernel' line in grub (grub.conf) for the kernel you are
currently using. If you use lilo, you can add the 'pci=biosirq' directly
when you boot, at the lilo prompt run 'linux pci=biosirq'.

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Ok, so I tried booting with pci=biosirq and didn't get nada.
BUT...
I reran a search for my card, and found a picture of it at
http://www.ttmicro.com/wificard.htm - it's a WB2500 80211.b WiFi
32-bit Cardbus PCI card. It was also called the XN2411B in some
places, and I think it might be sold at Xterasys as well.
(http://www.xterasys.com/wb2500.htm).

Neither of the companies officially support the card with linux
drivers, but I'm almost positive that adm8211 drivers should work with
it.

Does anyone have any idea how I should get started setting this up? I
can't seem to modprobe it at all.

Any tips would be appreciated