wireless NIC (Microsoft....)
 

Hello everyone..
is there any drivers for wireless NICs (Microsoft NIC)
i'm using RedHat-9


my network going like that

DSL- Modem ---------> Wireless Router -------> then the laptop with this wireless card
this card works fine with windows but i didn't find it in the list when i'm trying to configure a wireless connection in redhat-9...


thanks

Please specify the make/model of your latop, the wireless card you're using, etc. I understand that you're trying to get your wireless access to work but you need to provide more details. Thanks -- J.W.

IBM A22m laptop
Microsoft wireless notebook adapter
Model MN-520
802.11b/Wi/Fi Wireless)))

According to:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

Its an old prism2 card... which means it should have loaded the drivers by default. Lets make certain the card is what it should be, what's the output of:

/sbin/cardctl ident

/sbin/lspci

And...

/sbin/lsmod

Cheers,

Finegan

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c)
00:03.1 Serial controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 01)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

ndiswrapper didn't work with me

My wireless card is Microsoft MN-520
802.11b/Wi-Fi Wireless
and of course it's an external one..
i tried all .inf file in the cd but nothing worked i followed the INSTALL file as it is i think
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
nls_cp437 5116 0 (autoclean)
vfat 13004 0 (autoclean)
fat 38808 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
ndiswrapper 59276 0
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
udf 98400 0 (autoclean)
ide-cd 35708 1 (autoclean)
cdrom 33728 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds 8680 2
yenta_socket 13472 2
pcmcia_core 57216 0 [ds yenta_socket]
e100 60644 1
ipt_REJECT 3928 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15096 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70784 7
jbd 51892 7 [ext3]

i found my card in the list-site u sent but i don't know which driver i should download ..
ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/

I don't think ndiswrapper ever back hacked support for this card as it has a native linux driver. Old card, good one too, ironic with it having the MS brand on it, but they just rebranded the cheapest chipset around and for about a year there that was the prism2.

Okay, its been a while, RH9 is pretty old, this one is in /etc/pcmcia/config now, but RH is ancient, copy this file:

www.clockwatching.net/~fin/random/microsoft.conf

into /etc/pcmcia

Leave the file name as it is, when pcmcia loads it sources /etc/pcmcia/config and looks at all the pcmcia ids in there, compares it to what's in the socket, and loads a module that matches. At the end of that config file it will source any additional file in /etc/pcmcia that ends in .conf

That file to download should have the right pcmcia card info for an MN-520. You'll have to reload pcmcia in order to get it to read the file:

/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

Cheers,

Finegan

thanks ...
i'll try that
but i notice that kudzu detected the wireless card but at
# redhat-config-network.........wireless the card is not listed there ...

Good
 

Wow you guys are good

Is that with or without the new .conf file onboard? hrmm... shouldn't matter, I think the RH config toy is seperate than the actually pcmcia-cs info in the machine so updating the later as we are isn't really going to help inform the former.

Actually, all of these newer (well, er... 3 year old), cards were added to the base pcmcia-cs package that shipped with FC1, which is itself a few years old, plus if this is a newer laptop having no acpi support aboard RH9 might be a hastle. Is there something that has you stuck to RH9? If not, might want to make the jump to Fedora.

Cheers,

Finegan