I just installed redhat 9 on a compaq aramda m700. I am using a Netwave BWP612 wireless card from blitzz. Netwave cards are on the hardware compatablity list but I can't get the thing to work. I've checked if it was just network settings and it is not. It is just hardware. I could use some help with this problem.

i have a d-link card and it worked just fine. I have noticed that in Linux sometimes if you want it to work you just have to buy another one and some times another one untill you find one that works. Just one thing. Whe you installed Linux did you have the card in the slot? I have noticed that when you set up Redhat it is best to have every thing connected to your computer. Network cards, scanner, digital camera, usb mouse ect...

Do you know what chipset the Netwave card uses? I could not find it on the AbsoluteValue Systems list.

Yes, I had the card in when I installed. I would just buy one from the list but I would rather do this without spending money.
The chipset is ADMTek.

When you go in to the network setting box. you should see your built in NIC, modem, do you see the wireless cars? if you do click on the settings for it and selece infistructure (yeah, i mis spelled that). How long have you been using Redhat for?

-AG

I don't have a built in NIC in this model. Only the built-in modem works. I am a newbie to Linux.

Regaurdless of the built in NIC do you see the wireless card?

ADM has drivers available on their website. Download them and then just follow the instructions to install them. I did this just the other day using a Hawking card with the same chip.

They only have driver installs up to 8.0. Will those work in 9. If not, how do I adapt they to work.
Also, agallant, I have never seen any kind of card in the network settings box or anywhere for that matter, I have spent quite a lot of time looking for it.

I'm using the drivers with Fedora Core 1 (=Redhat 10), and they work fine. Occasionally the card locks up and you have to remove it and reinsert it. (You don't have to physically remove it. Just become root and do: ifdown ethX, cardctl eject, cardctl insert and then ifup ethX, as relevant. Put all that in a script if you like). I think I once had to restart cardmgr, as well, but that may have been with my old Linksys card.

I tried installing the drivers directly from the manufactor's website, but they don't seem to be working. I still don't see the card in the network configuration no new network device had been to the list of available network cards. I have the 8211.o driver file, how do I manually install it?

if you've compiled the drivers, then become root and do
locate orinoco_cs.o
and put 8211.o in the same place. then do
depmod -a
you may get an error saying there are undefined symbols. i do, but it seems not to matter in the end. anyway, insert your card and do
cardctl ident
you may not get much helpful information (it probably won't recognize the card), but you should see that it is there. if so, then do
insmod -f 8211.o
you may have to do that from the appropriate directory, or give the full pathname. and you may have to do it a few times. (the -f was necessary for me, but may not be for you.) at that point, you should see that card in ifconfig. if so, configure your wireless parameters and get connected.

that's what worked for me, anyway. and i'll add that, after i got it working, 8211.o would load automatically when i inserted the card. not that i'm complaining, but i'm not sure why that's happening, as i can't seem to find anything in /etc/pcmcia that references it. anyone know where the info is? part of the reason i like linux is the fact that stuff like that isn't hidden away where you can't find (or modify) it.

I tried that and I get an error saying that I am trying to install a module for a different kernel version and it won't take. I have gone to the manufactor's website and they only have drivers up to 8.0. Those were the ones that I tried.
Also, I am getting the same kind of problem when installing ntfs support in the kernel. It is the proper version, but I keep getting an error that ntfs isn't suported when I try to mount the drive.

i got that error a few times, as well. get the pure source: http://www.admtek.com.tw/download/NI...%201.03.tar.gz
not a distro specific version, and compile yourself. you may still get that error once or twice. but i kept doing
insmod -f 8211.o
and eventually it just seemed to take. i have no idea why. the problem is that the "private" module ADM_Prv.o was compiled pre-distribution. you may, as i said, continue to get errors relating to the symbol table.

that did the trick on getting the card to work, but it only worked once. After the computer got restarted, it didn't work anymore. I tried to install the module again, and like always, it had to be forced cause of the kernel version difference. Even, after that, it no longer showed up in the network cards. I tried several times to no avail.