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amit632
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 Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject: AOpen AOI-701K wireless pcmcia |
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I really hope someone can help me out on this one, but I haven't been very successful in trying to get my wirelesss lan card working in gentoo (it doesn't work with any of the other liveCDs either such as knoppix/mepis  )
First of all, how do I find out what chipset is used in this card? After skimming through the .inf files available for download from AOPen's support site, I saw several references of RTL8180 which I presume is RealTek 8180 - but then I also saw a post on how to use 'ndiswrapper' for the 8180 chipset which linked to this page: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List
I've also tried the utility 'iwconfig' which was on the gentoo liveCD but it said no wireless cards detected =(
Can someone confirm this so I can go ahead and try out ndiswrapper? Or does anyone know a better/easier way to get the card working? Thanks a lot.
P.S: In case it matters, I'm using the card on a thinkpad T21 - during bootup the card is powered (one of 2 leds light up). |
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yofreaksharma
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject: wlan-ng? |
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| Have u tried the wlan-ng driver? found at this site: http://www.linux-wlan.org/ |
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amit632
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: wlan-ng? |
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Hmm... that site looks interesting, however their installation seems to give the user a choice of prism2/2.5/3 chipsets - how do I know which one to use?
When I look at their compatibility chart here: http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz I only see the card listed as "Cardbus" with no comments next to it - does that mean no one has reported it working? Also, the other variants of the card (701R,702*) seem to use the 'Atmel' chipset which is something I've never heard of... |
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yofreaksharma
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject: choose all |
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| personally i dont know what type of chipset my wireless card is ... so i usually opt to compile and install all ... even the ones that arents installed by default (ive not had a problem with the extra modules lieing about) |
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amit632
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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So I did install the linux-wlan-pre22 package, installation went without a hunch, but it seems like nothing has happened =(
After issuing:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart |
nothing happens at all; I've looked into the config files and the setup seems as if it should pick up any wireless signal, but it doesn't.
wlan0 doesn't even show up in my network device list 
| Code: | root@paladin linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre22 # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:86:4C:09:0E
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1693 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1570000 (1.4 Mb) TX bytes:141811 (138.4 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4800 (4.6 Kb) TX bytes:4800 (4.6 Kb)
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| Code: | root@paladin linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre22 # ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device |
Here's the output from lspci -v, which never used to show up before:
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0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 4000 [disabled]
Memory at 18400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
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The wlancfg utility doesn't really help out:
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root@paladin root # wlancfg show wlan0
wlancfg: No such device
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Anyone have ideas??? |
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yofreaksharma
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| Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| wow that sucks ... have u tried ndiswrapper? (it seams that the linux-wlan driver isnt the correct one) i have no clue what chipset the realtek card is ... that would be a good thing to find out |
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ryan83vt
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| Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anyone solved this problem? |
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amit632
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| Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject: Not yet... |
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Thanks for all the responses guys, I really appreciate you all trying but I have tried all kinds of (live cd) distros and I have finally given up on this card... it works perfect on windows since I dual boot anyway and AOpen has no hope of getting *nix based drivers 
@yofreaksharma:
No, I haven't tried ndiswrapper though I've heard some things about it. Not really sure if its worth the time. |
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