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Linksys WPC11 Version 4
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Description: 802.11-B Wireless PCMCIA card Version 4. This version of the Linksys card uses a RealTek chipset and is completely incompatible with the Version 3 and 2.5's drivers. I have NEVER been able to get this working with any version of Linux I've tried - Mandrake 9.2, SuSE 9.0, Debian 3.0 RC1. I've downloaded drivers from RealTek, and even LinuxAnt's Windows driver wrapper didn't work.
Keywords: Wireless PCMCIA WPC11 Version 4 RealTek
/sbin/lspci output: *not recognized*
Chipset: RealTek
Connection Type: PCMCIA


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Old 08-11-2004, 12:56 PM   #1
djgerbavore
 
Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: Fedora Core 8_x86 (latest git kernel)
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24
Distribution: Slackware 9.1



i got it working with ndiswrapper, and winxp drivers, cheap fix, but works like a champ, got it talking wep, and have setup up a little network.
 
Old 08-30-2004, 09:10 PM   #2
cheyman270
 
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is there any links for the ndiswrapper is there a certian version that works and as far as the winxp driver would linux be able to find it if you running a duel boot and search windows files?
 
Old 09-12-2004, 05:07 PM   #3
 
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Wow,

You're the first I've heard of that got this card working.

I'm relatively new to this so I'm going to take a look at the ndiswrapper route. Any pointers you have would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

bohemianlikeyou
 
Old 09-19-2004, 06:04 PM   #4
celticX
 
Registered: May 2004
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I used Ndiswrapper 7.0, and some of the new version 4's do not come with the realtek chip that was mostly my problem trying to get it to work. You must use the Improcomm drivers, after that evetything worked fine and have been running fast and smooth :)
 
Old 02-25-2005, 01:11 PM   #5
merize147
 
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I've gotten it to work on suse9.1 but you have to use Realtek's xp driver not the one from linksys.
 
Old 04-13-2005, 11:38 PM   #6
Iridesce
 
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Mepis 3.3 Rocks / Mandrake 10.0 Official / Windows 98SE / Windows XP
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Greetings,

Am trying hard to get this working :

Resources thusfar:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=284525

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=311113

Hopefully the answer soon ....
 
Old 03-07-2006, 02:39 PM   #7
ncsuapex
 
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I got my WPC11 Version 4 working on Slax kernel 2.6.12.2 with ndiswrapper and the net8180.inf file.
 
Old 10-29-2006, 12:33 AM   #8
coldhandshake
 
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.17-10-generic
Distribution: Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy)


I had Mandriva 2006 and I could not get this card to work, but yesterday I installed Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) which was released Oct 26 of 2006, and it worked with whatever driver Kubuntu automatically decided to use, I don't know how to see what driver it is, if you would like to know I would be glad to tell you, if you tell me how to look.
PS I don't know how well it works, but I can connect to my WRT54GS router I own, one with third party firmware.
 
Old 04-19-2007, 10:15 AM   #9
pgreenwood
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Debian
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18
Distribution: Debian Etch (3/17/2007 build)


This product is probably no longer on the shelves as a new item. My card (WPC11v4) has the Maxim radio.

THE native driver for this card is a SourceForge Project named rtl-wifi. Check it out, follow instructions to the letter (but I never did a 'make install') and read about my install saga there.
 




  



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