Ok. I got mine working perfectly, I hope this helps.
This should get you running in less than 20 minutes. You might want to print these instructions.
You'll need the much touted Linuxant DriverLoader, though. It's free for a month, but then you have to pay US$16. I think this is 16 too many if we already paid for working hardware, but it works well, and I don't plan on sitting here all wireless-less waiting for Broadcom to do their job.
Dell 300m
Truemobile 1400 card
RedHat 9.0
note: this is supposed to work for most Intel centrino, intersil, broadcom, and atheros cards, but i've heard of a payless way to do truemobile 1300s . you might want to check that out.
You need a way to download files, and make them accessible to linux. I did this with a friend's computer, and a usb pen.
Step 1. Go to
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/compatibility.php , and try to find your card. Download the drivers for your card, and store them in the pen. Since they are likely in exe format, run this, and extract the contents to the pen. This should include some .INF files.
Step 2. To find out what kernel version you have, go to the command line and type: uname -a. Now go to
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader...ds-license.php , download the package most suitable for your system. To find out what kernel version you have, go to the command line and type: uname -a . Save this to the pen.
Step 3. Go here:
https://www.linuxant.com/store/account_signup.php Follow the steps to get a license key. A bit intimidating, but not a big hassle. If you need your MAC, or hardware address, type /sbin/ifconfig on the comand line. The number you want is the one in the 00:00:00:00:00 format. Once you get the license numbers, copy and paste (license, email,MAC,and whatever else they give you) to a text file. Save this to the pen.
Ok. Now take a breath, and don't get impatient. The tedious part is over.
Step 4: Boot your linux machine, and get access to the USBpen (or whatever storage you used) Usually the RHMenu>System tools>Disk Management app will do. Copy and unzip the files to your home folder. On the command line type cd /home/[your user name], and then ls . You should see the unzipped files. now type
rpm -i driverloader[version, etc].rpm
Step 5: Driverloader is now installed. It will tell you to go to an address (probably 127.0.0.1:18020) on your web browser. Do so, and it will prompt you for the root password. When you are there, click on "upload drivers" . Browse to the .INF file, and click ok. It might ask you for another file, which is usually on the same directory as the .INF.
Step 6: Now click on license, and copy-paste the info on the textfile.
If everything goes smoothly (it should), you now have a well supported card. Now, to get it running.
Step 7: Go to the command line, and get root privileges. This is usually accomplished by typing su . And then the password. now type dldrconfig -a. When this is done, if you go to RHMenu>System Settings>Network, and click on New...wireless, you should see the Driverloader card. Go through that, and don't forget to check the automatically start cards at startup box. Go to the console as root and type dldrconfig -a, once more, just to be sure.
Try opening mozilla, and navigating to google.
Hopefully, you are now the proud owner of a fully conected Linux box. The only problem is, you have to go to the console and type su.....password......dldrconfig -a every time you start up. To fix this, login as root, and type gedit /etc/rc.d/rc.local this is a sort of autoexec.bat it contains the last scripts to be run when the computer starts. Append this line to the end of the file: dldrconfig -a . Now save the file.
DONE. Congrats, you are all set. Everytime you boot, your computer should look for the nearest wireless node and connect automatically.
I hope you found this useful.
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