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I just installed Linux on my laptop, which has Wireless capabilities, and many of the buildings that I have classes in only have Wireless connections to the newtork. Does anyone know how I can enable wireless networking in Red Hat 7.3 with Kernel 2.4.18-10? Are there drivers and programs right on the CD's or will I be looking at downloading? I have my ethernet connection working just fine, but I cannot even begin to think of how to enable wireless.... Is this even supported in linux? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Distribution: Redhat, Open BSD, SuSe, Debian, CentOS
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Wireless networking is supported in linux. Your wirelesscard will appear as ethx (either eth0, eth1, etc). When you perform an ifconfig -a does it appear?
This is what ifconfig -a returns, along with info about the loopback device. eth0 is the ethernet card, but there was no indication of the wirelesscard (which is internal, not PCMICA). Is there some way to enable it, because in WinXP i have to activate the card to use it.
try iwconfig to check if your wirelesscard is present?
You need to find out that the wirelesslan from which the building you are accessing is using infrastructure or ad-hoc mode. From there you can configure you wireless NIC. Some info, eg ESSID, WEP key, you might want to find out more.
Try lsmod to look for the wireless module that is loaded if your hardware is detected. If you know your hardware, that will be easier to re-install the latest wireless NIC driver.
I just upgraded to RH 8.0, and There's supposedly wireless support built right in. I searced and found out that I can use the Lucent Orinoco/Prisim 2 driver set... IRQ is 11, but I can't figure out what eth it is.... I am assuming that the Wirelesscard and the wired NIC are both on the same card, seeing as when I look at the PCI settings they both use IRQ 11..... What's going on there? The wireless feature is built in to the laptop... not a seperate PCMICA card... I don't know anything about laptop hardware, so any insight would be helpful
This is the information that Win XP Pro gives me on the wirelesscard
(General)
IBM HighRateWirelessLAN MiniPCI ComboCard
Device type: Network Adaptors
Manufacturer: Actiontec Electronics Inc
Location: PCI bus 1, device 5, function 0
(Resources)
Memory Range: 80300000 - 80300FFF
IRQ: 11
Last edited by justiceisblind; 10-05-2002 at 12:24 PM.
The only wirelesscard I know of on the market from Actiontec is an 802.11a card, is that what you have? If so, post back as much info you can give us on it... there's a driver in the works for it, very alpha, but 802.11a isn't compatible with 802.11b...
Hi ppl. I'm glad I found this thread cos I'm having the exact problem with this. Anyway, lemme help by providing some details for this IBM HighRateWirelessLANMiniPCIcombocard -
Actiontec Electronics, Inc
PRISM WirelessLAN
Network Driver Version 1.07.25
Configuration Utility Version 1.07.25
NIC Firmware Version 1.03.03.00
the card appears to be a 802.11b card.... on actiontec's website I found what I figured to be the card... it's a 802.11b wireless and 56.6k winmodem combocard and uses a prisim chipset.
If its PCI and indeed a prism card, you probably want to look into either the orinoco modules... which might or might not do a good job of running the card, or the www.linux-wlan.net project's gear... which may or may not work at all.
The orinoco modules are already onboard, so just try:
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