[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless NIC Problem

[Bishop, Cass]

Here is the link where I found out about the realtek drivers.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=1198057fbbf787c808c
85d6820f4fc71&threadid=59057&highlight=rtl8180

How can fix the pcmcia configs?  When I was using the linux-wlan to attempt
to get it working I created and entry in the wlan-ng.config like they did
here http://www.practicallynetworked.com/support/wpc11_linux.htm.  I tried
the manfid I get with cardctl and the one on the site.  Is there any way to
get my pcmcia to think this card is a prism2 card?  I can't find any
definitive info about the ver.4 card so I'm not actually sure it is a prism2
chipset.

Cass

-----Original Message-----
From: MadHat [mailto:madhat at unspecific.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:06 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless NIC Problem


On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 11:05, Bishop, Cass wrote:
> 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.

Can you provide links?

> 
> 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.
> 

Cardctl looks for certain things to identify the card.  When I installed
the wlan-ng drivers my Prism2 based card worked but my Orinoco card
stopped working.  I found that it thought it was a different card and
when I modified the pcmcia configs to identify the right card everything
was fine.  The cardctl does make mistakes.

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