How do you determine your chip set?

mabreaux · 08-31-2006, 08:23 PM

How do you determine the chip set for the wireless card you are working on. I call Linksys and they refused to disclosed the information. I know the chip set is made by Airgo Inc. and that it is a mimo chip set nothing more..

Linksys wpc54gx4

2Gnu · 08-31-2006, 10:25 PM

For a cardbus or miniPCI card, use the command lspci. For more details, add a -v or -vv.

For a PCMCIA card, use cardctl ident.

Or, go here: http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

mabreaux · 09-02-2006, 09:24 PM

I checked out the web site and the card is not listed...

Michael

2Gnu · 09-03-2006, 01:03 AM

Did you try lspci -v?

According to this thread, it's working: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=479239

mabreaux · 09-03-2006, 10:13 AM

I have it working with an old pcmcia card. I am still trying to get the high speed card working.

The only card is a wpc54g (broadcom) and the new card is a wpc54gx4 (airgo inc chip set unknown).

Michael

mabreaux · 09-03-2006, 09:08 PM

lspci -v

Quote:

airgo inc mimo chip set...

the windows driver does not work with ndiswrapper.

2Gnu · 09-03-2006, 09:20 PM

It may be that you're out of luck. Have you Googled for airgo chipset linux driver?

mabreaux · 09-06-2006, 12:55 PM

I found a site:

www.csie.nctu.ecu.tw/~cfliu/work/8650.htm

Quote:

Linksys WRT54GX4, Wireless-G Broadband Router with SRX400, RTL8651B+Airo 2x3 True MIMO Gen3 chipset

could I assume the pcmcia card would use the same chip set?

PabloHassan · 09-06-2006, 06:54 PM

hey all i found my chipset,

02:0d.0 Network controller: RaLink Wireless PCI Adapter RT2400 / RT2460
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 0126
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at feafe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

I am an ultra noob to linux, well i feel like i am, and i have no idea what step 2 would be to get this puppy up and running, so far its just plugged into the MOBO... Any help would be muchly appreciated, thanks for your time..

2Gnu · 09-06-2006, 09:10 PM

Step one would be to start a new thread with your specifics instead of gloming onto an unrelated one.

Step two: Get the driver from the project page. http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400

Three: Read the wiki. http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Four: Install the driver per the wiki instructions

Five: Configure the wireless parameters

Six: Configure the network parameters