[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless NIC Problem

[Bishop, Cass]

I found some links though google where other people had Linksys cards that
came up as Realtek in the cardctl ident.  The problem is that thier cards
said rtl8180 and realtek has drivers for that card that they seemed to be
able to make work according to the posts.

I tried the wlan-ng drivers and those will not work with my card since it is
not an Intersil Prism chipset.

Why would what I get from cardctl ident cuase it not to work?  I can't
figure out why it won't load the driver when it is compiled and aliased.
I'll probably pick up another card to make this process easier but I'd still
like to know if anyone has any info on this card.  Thanks for the feedback.

Cass

-----Original Message-----
From: MadHat [mailto:madhat at unspecific.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:55 AM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless NIC Problem


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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