Wireless card(s) problem

[SteveyDevey]

I've got a bit of trouble here... I decided to hop back on the linux bandwagon, after giving it up a few years ago. I stopped because I couldn't get my wireless card working, and without it, i can't get on the net. Not really an option, when it's so easy in windows.

So i figured it would be easier now, but it seems i'm wrong. At the time, i used to have a dlink dwl-650, attached through the 500. (PCI card, PCMCIA card holder). I really wasn't happy with that card ever, and now i've got a linksys wmp11. I'm happier with the linksys (surprise, surprise), but after installing FC2, I couldn't get on the net. Figuring that i've have to set it up, I started trying some things. I also have a little linksys ethernet card in the machine, so i was using that to get to the network.

I couldn't get the wmp11 to play nicely, so after a while, i decided to throw the dlink back in also. I've got them both running fine in windows now (which is a feat, let me tell you!), but neither in linux.

There are multiple versions of the wmp11, and not all of them are compatible with linux. That's one of the motivators to try the dlink. When i couldn't get the dlink working (which looks to be pretty compatible, even though it didn't seem to be a few years ago), I came to the conclusion that I'm just doing something wrong/missing some crucial bit of info/an idiot.

So, starting from a "let's teach a moron" level of explanation, does anyone have any suggestions? ie, what would you do, for the first couple of steps of getting something like this installed?



Oh, and i'm new. Hi, there, forum!

[STiAT]

My question in this case is:

What does "lspci" say about the card? Which chipset has it?

Prism54 is currently the only WLAN chipset i know which is supported by the Kernel. For in example Atheros chipsets you will need to install the madwifi Wireless drivers (not packed with Fedora Core 2 - but you'll find a couple of tutorials about this in the boards). For some others you will need to wrap the windows drivers.

// STi

[SteveyDevey]

Well, afaik, the dlink card has a prism chipset. the linksys has something else, but it's not coming to mind. I'll check the lspci when i boot back into linux. Thanks for the idea though. I really have no leads on what to do, because of my limited knowledge.

[SteveyDevey]

Here's what lspci says, in total:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:06.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev 02)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 17fe:2120
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2)

The line that says: "00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)" is the pcmcia card holder.

So does this mean that i've got to tell linux to find the hardware? Or does it mean that i'm screwed?

the d-link is not prism. most likely your screwed with linksys. I believe linksys uses broadcom's chipset which doesn't support linux. Back to d-link. That card uses the atheros chipset. fortunately there is semi (binary only) support for linux. to get it working, download the madwifi cvs version from sourceforge. note, the device will be called ath0 NOT eth0.

[STiAT]

How-To get your Madwifi-Card running.
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2785

Good luck,
// STi

[fab]

there are many possible chipset in this type of wireless-adapters

DWL-650 Prism
DWL-650 V2 ADMtek
DWL-650 V3 Realtek
DWL-650 V4 Prism 3 SSF
DWL-650+ TI

greeting fab

[Picomp314]

the Linksys WPC55AG are atheros as well with the 5212 version

[zero000999]

I have a linksys wireless PCI card model no. WMP11 version 7.2. are there any drivers for such a device? If so, please post a link.

Thanks!

[STiAT]

Maybe lspci shows up the chipset of the card?

If not ... google often did help

[Picomp314]

from what i can tell you meant top say WMP11 version 2.7, which is a card based upon the Broadcom chipset
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

from what i can tell you have to use either ndiswrapper or linuxant's driverloader that allow you to use the windows drivers within linux

[fedora1982]

hello people. i have a belkin pcmcia wlan card in my notebook. but i can`t install it under fedora 2. where can i found instruction to how i have to do and write in the bash to install this card?