ok, i've searched and searched to no avail. i just want this to work!!!! ok, here's what i've got running on my box

compaq armada
128mb RAM
600mhz pIII
fedora core 2 - kernel version 2.6.6-1.435.2.3
edimax 2.4GHz DSSS 11Mbps IEEE 802.11b Cardbus Wireless LAN EW-7106PC (card in question)

i got the card brand new and it said right on the box that it was supported in linux... silly me for believing that would make it easy. here's what i've tried to do so far:

1. put in the CD and tried to follow the directions
a) readme file said to try doing "insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o" so i went su - put in my pass and tried that but it said "insmod: error inserting 'rtl8180_24x.o': -1 Invalid module format
b) then the read me said if that didnt work to modify the makefile to your kernel spec, which i did, but when i try to make, i get a whole bunch of errors (couple pages worth)

2. came on here, did googles too.
a) installed diverloader, and put in the updated XP drivers, but it said that there were no devices to match the drivers.
b) found a file called rtl8180_24x_SuSE.zip, extraced it. much the same as the stuff on the cd, still didnt work.

so... i dont know if it isnt detecting it for some reason (how can you tell?). i'm kinda noob when it comes to linux, so... i just really want this to work so i can have a fully functional linux laptop at my disposal :P. thanks in advance for any tips or advice

frogger01; have u checked that device in the ldp hardware data base documentation? before purchasing,acquiring devices & installing do check if
they will be supported by any distro of linux. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html (table of contents)
sections 13 network adapters,22 modems,28 other hardare-subsection 28.9multifunction boards,28.12 misc.,29 appendix A supported PP devices
subsection29.1 etheret

yeah i did... it didnt really say anything about edimax 7106pc tho... right now i'm in the process of installing kernel 2.4.20 which is the EXACT kernel that the company's website says it's driver is designed for... so, wish me luck and i'll let you know how it goes

ok.. so that didnt work, couldnt get an older kernel to load up fedora core 2... i got the rpms installed ok tho with rpm -hiv --force (filename) but it wouldnt load, just hung in the bootup. so... now i'm back to using 2.6.6-1.427.8kstacks and i still cant get this wireless card to work. anyone have any suggestions???

Hi

Try doing dmesg and check if the kernel detects it
and if i does try doing ifconfig -a and check if the card is there

Erling

ok, so.. i did that dmesg thing and it poped up a whole shitload of stuff.. and i'm not quite sure what i'm supposed to be looking for. but, i went ahead and did ye ol' "su -" and "ifconfig -a" and this is what it said:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2706080 (2.5 Mb) TX bytes:2706080 (2.5 Mb)


sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP WTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)



so as you might of guessed, i have no idea what any of this means.... any help???

frogger01; ? have u taken time to read any of the boring but important documentations about how to do everything. carefully!? being honest i too
am a newbie but do a lot of research,reading manuals, documentations and everything else i can get my hands on just to be well informed and
knowledgeable. from u r post appears to have quite few misconfigs.

thanks for the personal insults, but instead of doing that, could you offer any advice?

Can you post your dmesg output

ok, here it is.. it's kinda long tho... thank gooness for flash drives, sure would suck to type all this out. hope it helps you figure out what's wrong with my setup

[adam@localhost adam]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.6-1.427.8kstacks (root@www) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat Jun 12 16:02:17 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007ff3800 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff3800 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
127MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32752
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 28656 pages, LIFO batch:6
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000f9970
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ RSDB130 0x00000001 CPQ 0x00000001) @ 0x07ff4800
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ CPQB10F 0x20020315 CPQ 0x00000001) @ 0x07ff4828
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ ARMADAE7 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x5008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes)
Detected 497.656 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 126588k/131008k available (1545k kernel code, 3864k reserved, 611k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 983.04 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f1ff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 188k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0478, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [C005] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C005._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C005.C012._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [C13C] (on)
ACPI: Power Resource [C0E5] (on)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C187] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C18D] (IRQs 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C18E] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C18F] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: Power Resource [C1A4] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [C1A6] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [C1A8] (off)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C187] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C18F] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C18E] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1089380807.271:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Fan [C1A2] (off)
ACPI: Fan [C1A5] (off)
ACPI: Fan [C1A7] (off)
ACPI: Processor [C0BE] (supports C1 C2, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [C1A3] (16 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x50000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3420-0x3427, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3428-0x342f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide2: I/O resource 0x3EE-0x3EE not free.
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 23579136 sectors (12072 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=23392/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio4
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02deac0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
ACPI: AC Adapter [C105] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [C10D] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [C10E] (battery absent)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [C057]
ACPI: Lid Switch [C1AE]
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 00003400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
Adding 262072k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 already at revision 0xe (current=0xe)
microcode: No new microdata for cpu 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
SCSI subsystem initialized
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.6-1.427.8kstacks
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
driverloader: module license 'see LICENSE file; Copyright (c)2003-2004 Linuxant inc.' taints kernel.
driverloader: stack=8192/64/0 REGPARM
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
es1968: clocking to 48000
[adam@localhost adam]$

Hi
I'm not very good at fedora so i cant help you more
because its seems like fedora don't detects the card
but you may want to read the read me more careful
to make sure you done everything...

Erling

yeah i did.... i got this error msg tho; check this out and lemme know what you think.

[root@locahost]# insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o
insmod: error inserting 'rtl8180_24x.o': -1 Invalid module format


any suggestions?

once you have booted into linux are any of the lights on your network card on? or blinking?
what do you get when you do ifconfig ?

well.. i kinda took perhaps the easy way out of the situation, but... i installed redhat9.0 on 2.4.20-18 (becuase that's what the drivers are written for from the company). and now i can start up, go into terminal and type in:

su -
password
/home/user/RedHat9.0/wlanup

and that will get the lights to flash on the card. also, i can see it connected to my router via the settings on it. when i do dmesg, i can see it connected to the right network, on the right channel and everything. the only problem is... internet doesnt work. i tried going into the network settings in the system settings menu, but it says that there are no wireless devices... is there somethign that i have to do to put this card into the network devices list or something?

what do you get when you do a "ifconfig" ?