Hey was wondering if someone can help me. Haven't used linux in awhile but always used a wired network. I have a TRENDnet TEW-423PI PCI wireless card in my PC and I'm trying to install Gentoo. None of the modules it comes with work with this card. I checked online a bit and found people that said this card works in linux but can someone help me where I should look or get a module for it so that I can use it? Thanks!

Hello,
If your french is very good, may be you can find an answer to your problem on the web sit e:
http://scresto.site.voila.fr/faq.html#wifi

I need to do the same thing you want, so I will test soon

Is anyone aware of anything in English for this card?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...cat=155&page=1

I know that the llink is to an older trendnet card, but I bet you could get it running.
I'd say try ndiswrapper(ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net) and the drivers on the cd.

I am posting this to help others out there that might be using the trendnet brand.




02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at e2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2


I got this card working by installing win98 drivers from the included CD using nisdwrapper I am using PClinuxOS. (think Mandriva) I am using wep and have full 54G my router is a linksys WRT54G.


Here are some weblinks for trendnet wireless cards



http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Trendnet

http://www.trendnet.com/support/os_compatibility.htm


update
this may or may not happen to your Computer
after I got the card working I noticed that the card would disconnect sometimes and I troubleshooted this for some time on why this happened. I looked at the windows software and what it had and what the Linux had and this seems to have fixed this issue. on windows the software has two things Linux does not. Look under that advanced settings on Linux and you will see no value for TX rate and the frequency I copied theses numbers to Linux and I than tried many reboots left it running to see what would happen it never again lost the connection after this tweak. My duel boot system when I would boot to Linux would not connect until I added this to the Linux software settings.

end of update





later all
dave67