[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless NIC Problem

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 08:54, Bishop, Cass wrote:
> I am trying to set up my Red Hat 8 laptop with a Linksys WPC11 ver. 4
> wireless card.  When I run cardctl ident after inserting it I see the
> following info on the card.
> 
> product info: "Realtek", "Rtl8139"
> manfid: 0x0000, 0x024c
> function: 6 (network)
> 

I don't think that is right and would cause it not to work.  All the
Linksys cards I have used have always come up as a Linksys/Prism card. 
But I can't find any info on the v4 cards.  I have only seen anything up
to v3 (including on Linksys website), which was still prism based.  Nor
can I find anywhere that the Realtek is in any linksys product.  The
problem sounds like it might be that it is being detected wrong in that
case.

> The rtl8139 driver is automatically installed on my version of Linux
> (8139too) and I have added an alias in modules.conf.  When I try to do an
> ifup wlan0 it says there is no 8139too device.  Does anyone have any
> experience getting one of these cards working?  I bought it as part of a
> Linksys kit with thier 4 port Wireless router and access point.  
> 
> I went to the Realtek website and downloaded the driver from them but it
> appears to be for the 7.x line of Red Hat.  I cannot load that driver after
> I compile it.

might try the drivers at http://www.linux-wlan.org

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