I was thinking getting a wireless pc-card for my laptop (i8200) but as I have heard and read the 802.11g isn't supported at the moment under Linux at all. Thereby is was thinking getting a card that supports 802.11g/b/a. There is one from 3Com, i.e. Wireless PC-Card 3COM 11a/b/g 3CRPAG175 54Mbit. Has anyone been able to get that card running under linux or any other of the 802.11g/b/a or 802.11g/b.

Kind Regards

André Fettouhi

fettouhi

I have a Netgear WG 511 http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WG511.asp running on RH 9 but I did upgrade to Kernel-2.4.22 first

Here's a link to the drivers and How-to http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/

Card works fine but it did involve patching and compiling the Kernel

Good luck

Pete

i have the orinoco gold card (they probably have a better model) and i think they released linux drivers for it (check). in terms of range, you get about double what you get from other cards (and i've seen a lot, since everybody at my school has them and they all complain about range, whereas i'm fine . . .) however, i'm not running linux, just using the card to connect to linux hosts.

hello there

I am sitting here for age to make that morons-card work on SuSE 8.2 and 9.0.

all for nothing.

I tried the followings:

- manual from sdb.suse.com
- using the poldhu-module
- installed the latest external-pcmcia package from david hind.

by the way: there is no possiblitiy to find out the chipset the card is working with.

I should open it like can .... :-(

but the popup-antenna pops up fine ... hä hä.

if anybody finds out a way to make the card work, plese let me know.

thanks.

dave.

I am using a SMC 2632W V2 11 Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card with my RH 9 machine. It took a little work to get running and still isnt quite right but works. This is a prism II card and I got it working using Atmel ( http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/downloads.html ) drivers. (NOTE: This is specific to my card but I hope it might help you)

Next uncompress and install the drivers by:
make clean
make config
make install

Next edit your /etc/pcmcia/config file as follows:
add this to the Device driver definitions section

device "pcmf502r"
class "network" module "pcmf502r"

add this to the Wireless adapter definitions

card "SMC 2632W V2 11Mbs 802.11b WLAN Card"
manfid 0x01bf, 0xb301
bind "pcmf502r"

you may also need libforms.so.0.89 in /usr/lib, let me know and i can get it to you

now you might be able to start up your card with
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

if you get a modprobe cant find whatevermodule.o error you can manually start these with
cd /lib/modules/2.4.20-8custom/pcmcia (not that you may not have a custom [recompile] kernel directory)
insmod pcmcia_core.o
insmod yenta_socket.o
insmod ds.o
insmod pcmf502r.o

Once those modules are loaded:
cd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart
xvnet (used to authenticate on a secure server)
./dhcpcd eth1 (a script written by Greg Smith to connect to network, if this is helpful so far contact me and i will get you the script as i cannot post the binary file here and dont have the source code available at the moment)

NOTE: you must stop the pcmf502r.o module to have a clean shutdown, this can be done by
rmmod pcmf502r


Jeff Smith

hello,

i found out that the 3CRPAG175 has a Atheros Chipset.
this chipset is not supported by SuSE at present.

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

....I think it`s time for a suizid..

:-)
dave.

hi everybody.

now I can proudly present a solution to make run the 3COM 3CRPAG175.

your will need madwifi drivers from sourceforge.net. use the following link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

it is important, to use the latest version from cvs!!!! otherwise the card won`t work, because the 3Com vendor-id is not includet in the available tar.gz-package.

go to the madwifi dir and type: make ; make install

restart the pcmcia daemon with rcpcmcia restart (suseonly!!) or /etc/init.de/pcmcia restart

then create file in /etc/sysconfig/networks (suseonly!!) called ath-pcmcia-0 and fill in all the needed parameters you can set with iwconfig.

by the way: if you plugged in the card, the driver ath_pci.o and wlan.o will be loaded but you don`t see the card if you type ifconfig.

the ifup ath0 command don`t work.

use instead the followig:

ifconfig ath0 your_ip_add netmask your_netmask broadcast your_broadcast up

the card beginns to blink and finds the accesspoints and loads all the datas you specified in /etc/network/ath-pcmcia-0

another problem are the default routes to your gateway. you have to set them manually after every bootup.

to bring up the card the best is use a litte sh script as the followin:

---
#!/bin/sh

ifconfig ath0 your_ip_add netmask your_netmask broadcast your_broadcast up
route add your_net netmask your_netmask gw your_gateway ath0
---
make this file executable with chmod u+x file.sh and start it after every boot.

I hope that helps.

best regards from Kaiserslautern - GERMANY.

dave.

Dave,

newbie@work.
Where can I download the tarball or package?
I only see seperate text files.

ThanX,
dSn

I see a directory WLAN ... but it contains a bunch of files I can't use ... is there a tarball which I can download somewhere or do I have to download all files and try to compile them?

Take a look at:
http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm#get

Ok, well it works on Suse but what about RedHat?