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candide
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 Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: unable to setup wireless pccard |
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Hello.
I have read many threads on the subject but I am unable to find a solution.
I have a DELL laptop with a NIC on eth0
I put in a SMC2635W wireless cardbus adapter
I have emerged base layout and any driver I saw mentioned in the networking threads.
I have gone thru all the drivers and did modprobe <driver module>
but iwconfig does not see a wireless device and it only reports on eth0 and lo which is being used by my NIC.
How does the ethn get created for this device?
What is the correct driver for this card?
lspci see the card.
Please help!
lspci
0000:03:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Wireless PCI Adpator RT2400 / RT2460
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
uname -a
Linux frylock 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 #2 Mon Jan 16 16:06:56 UTC 2006 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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BoNd60
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Could you post the result of | Code: | | lspci -n|grep 03:00.0 |
? I need this before answering you which driver you could use because I'm not sure of my idea 
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candide
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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# lspci -n|grep 03:00.0
0000:03:00.0 Class 0280: 1814:0101
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BoNd60
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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You can use ndiswrapper (emerge ndiswrapper) and the Windows driver provided on the CD (because it seems you can't find it on Internet anymore)
You will find all the necessary information to use this driver here
Your card is in the list (just search in the page for 1814:0101 and don't read the stuff for the Asus (your card is the other answer))
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candide
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: solved |
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Thanks BoNd60.
I downloaded the latest driver for my card and used ndiswrapper.
That loaded the interface but I had a heck of a time figuring out how to configure
the scripts to connect to the network and for them to work at startup.
It works now.
Here is how I configured it:
Since I don't need two network cards
I removed my NIC so it would not interfere with my wireless card
| Code: | rm /etc/init.d/net.eth0
rc-update del net.eth0
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then I added the wireless card to the startup
| Code: | cd /etc/init.d
ln -s net.lo net.wlan0
rc-update add net.wlan0 default
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then I added ndiswrapper to the auto load list
| Code: | echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
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then i configured net and wireless
/etc/conf.d/net
| Code: | modules=( "iwconfig" )
iface_wlan0=("dhcp")
dhcp_wlan0="nodns nontp nonis"
dhcpcd_wlan0="-t 10"
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/etc/conf.d/wireless
| Code: | mode_wlan0="managed"
essid_wlan0="<router name>"
sleep_scan_wlan0="1"
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