Greeting all;


I install slackware 10.0 on my IBM R40 Thinkpad, everything work fine except it does not see my Linksys 802.11b wireless adapter card. Can any one help?

(if I connect direct from the Thinkpad Ethernet port to my router, i can get to internet.)

Which Linksys card? Probably the WPC11, but which version? If its the Version 4, its an annoying Realtek8180 card, which makes the best bet to get it to work the ndiswrapper driver, which no kidding... wraps for the windows driver:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

Cheers,

Finegan

Yes; My adapter is Linksys WPC11 Version 4.

Yep, try out ndiswrapper from the above link. If you have any problems getting it to compile, post back.

Cheers,

Finegan

Many thanks Finegan,.
Now that I have it compiled, how and where should I install the driver?

Also, I have been looking around for other wireless adapter. Do you recomment NETGEAR? I went into their web site and they said their FA411 and FA511 is compatible with legacy O/S(that include RH Linux 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2).

The FA411 and Fa511 are wired cards... the MA401 is a prism2 based 802.11b card that works out of the box with any recent distro. There are also other netgear cards based on supported chipsets. End Manufacturer is pretty meaningless, Netgear, Linksys, D-Link, they all package other people's stuff, and that's the important part. So check out:

www.prism54.org

and

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

The first is a link to a very well 2.6 kernel supported chipset and what cards use it. The second is a list of basically every card on the market and what chipset it uses.

Now, ndiswrapper, you have the driver installed? as in, you downloaded the source, unpacked it, ran make and ran make install? If so, you'll then have a command known as:

ndiswrapper

And that'll show you how to install the windows driver for it to run off of, etc... I'm kinda lost as to what point you're stuck on.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thank you, I got it install and it is working. I can move my laptop around while I am onlin. Once again thanks.