Hello;

I have bought gigafast WF721-AEX 802.11b wireless card, and it is working fine with windows but I couldn't make it work with my RedHat9.0 Kernael 2.4.20-6. If you would help me finding the right driver and the procedure for installing it sinc I am a new Linux user.

You card is using either a Prism chipset or a Atmel chipset. If RedHat wasn't able to detect it, it sounds like it is most likely the Atmel chipset, since RedHat does a good job with Prism cards.

http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/


That is the project page for tLinux drivers for Atmel-based wireless cards. You should be able to get all of the information you need (drivers as well as installation procedures) on that site.

how can I check the chipset?

Post the following, and I'll tell you what I can:

output from:

cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

(*NOTE: I THINK that is where the file is located. I do not use Kudzu on my system, so I cannot check right now. If it's not located there, try searching in that area. I promise it exists somewhere near there on a RedHat system).

and output from:

lspci


and output from:

lsmod

this all I got when $ cat hwconf

class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Intel Corp.|82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 1a30
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Intel Corp.|82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 1a31
subVendorId: 0000
subDeviceId: 0000
pciType: 1
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: i810_rng
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 2448
subVendorId: 0000
subDeviceId: 0000
pciType: 1
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: i810-tco
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC)"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 248c
subVendorId: 0000
subDeviceId: 0000
pciType: 1
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CAM IDE U100"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 248a
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 2486
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: OTHER
bus: USB
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "USB UHCI Root Hub"
usbclass: 9
usbsubclass: 0
usbprotocol: 0
usbbus: 1
usblevel: 0
usbport: 0
vendorId: 0000
deviceId: 0000
usbprod: USB UHCI Root Hub
-
class: OTHER
bus: USB
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "USB UHCI Root Hub"
usbclass: 9
usbsubclass: 0
usbprotocol: 0
usbbus: 2
usblevel: 0
usbport: 0
vendorId: 0000
deviceId: 0000
usbprod: USB UHCI Root Hub
-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: eth
driver: e100
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 1031
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: MOUSE
bus: USB
detached: 0
device: input/mice
driver: mousedev
desc: "Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye?"
usbclass: 3
usbsubclass: 1
usbprotocol: 2
usbbus: 1
usblevel: 1
usbport: 0
vendorId: 045e
deviceId: 007d
usbmfr: Microsoft
usbprod: Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye?
-
class: MOUSE
bus: PSAUX
detached: 0
device: psaux
driver: genericps/2
desc: "Generic Mouse (PS/2)"
-
class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: i810_audio
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 2485
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: CDROM
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: scd0
driver: ignore
desc: "Teac DW-224E"
host: 0
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg0
-
class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: Card:NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)
desc: "nVidia Corporation|NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go]"
vendorId: 10de
deviceId: 0175
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: FLOPPY
bus: MISC
detached: 0
device: fd0
driver: unknown
desc: "3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive"
-
class: HD
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hda
driver: ignore
desc: "TOSHIBA MK4018GAS"
physical: 77520/16/63
logical: 4864/255/63
-
class: USB
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: usb-uhci
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1)"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 2482
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: USB
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: usb-uhci
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2)"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 2484
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: SOCKET
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: yenta_socket
desc: "Toshiba|ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support"
vendorId: 1179
deviceId: 0617
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
-
class: SOCKET
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: yenta_socket
desc: "Toshiba|ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support"
vendorId: 1179
deviceId: 0617
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1

Uh oh... It looks like Linux doesn't even see your card as being present at all...

Is this a PCI card, a PCMCIA card or a USB adaptor?

PCMCIA

This thread may help.

thanks for your time. any way, it works with me now, but the only thing is I have to set the default gateway each time I enable the interface?
could you help?

Using "neat," the RH network configuration GUI, you can set the gateway. Alternatively, you can edit the /etc/sysconfig/ network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or eth1 or whatever your interface is) to contain a line like:
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 (or whatever your gateway's IP actually is).
All the GUI does is edit the file which, IMHO is a long way around the block.

Do you have a regular network card too? It is most likely attempting to use that for transmission to the default gateway. Simplest solution there, is entirely disable that connection (if you aren't using it, that is...)

I have another ethr card, and the problem is that I couldn't connect using my wlan unless I enable the ethr and use it then enable wlan and disable the ethr?!!! looks strange. any help?

Try doing it entirely manually. Make sure that neither interface is brought up during boot. Then, reboot, login and try:

iwconfig wlan0 essid "Insert Your SSID here"
dhclient wlan0

abadihulm,
Could you share how you enabled your wireless card? I have the same card, and would like to know how to make it work.

when I issued "cardctl ident", I get:
Socket 0:
product info: "Texas InstrumentS", "ACX100 CaraBus Model Board"
manfid: 0x0097, 0x8402
function: 6 (network)
Why does everyone say it's an atmel chipset?
Please help! Much appreciated.
-W

it seems your chipset is ACX100, Mine is Realtek. I think this site would help you. What I did is only downloaded the latest driver from realtek site that works for RedHat9.0, and installed it. If yours is realtek, my way could help you. Just go with this site for ACX100 and follow all steps, I hope will help you a lot.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=gigafast