3Com 3CRSHPW796 WiFi setup with bonding -- Tips

[hoyanf]

I spent a few hours figuring out howto make the 3Com card to work with my friend laptop finally i managed to follow some guideline from this site :- http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wlan:3comofficeconnect its very helpful since it uses the latest kernel that is 2.6.x

What i did :-

emerge wireless-tools
download the driver from http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/adm8211/adm8211-20050620.tar.bz2
untarred the archive e.g. tar xjvpf adm8211-20050620.tar.bz2 to some directory -> i put it at /usr/src/adm
cd to /usr/src/adm
type make install && make modules_install

then reconfigured the /etc/conf.d/net to the following

modules=( "bonding" "ifconfig" "iwconfig" "essidnet" "dhcpcd" )
config_ESSID=( "dhcp" )
dhcpcd_ESSID="-t 5"
slaves_bond0="eth0 eth1"
config_bond0=( "dhcp" )
depend_bond0() {
need net.eth0 net.eth1
}

restarted the net.bond0 -> tested all in good working order
then just rebooted n see how it boots up with automagically find the appropriate AP or ethernet...

For those whom have been through the same issue i hope this would help....
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