I have a Toshiba Laptop TOSHIBA
Satellite® A45 Series
Feature Model(s): Part Numbers
Satellite A45-S130
Cel2800, 15.0”XGA, 512MB, 40GB, DVD-CDRW, Mdm ,LAN, WiFi, WinXP Home

I removed the winxp install and ran the Fedora Core 3 installation. Took the path of least resistance through the instalation, but when I got done I noticed that the installation did not include my wireless connection.

System manuals say that the wireless card is this:

Integrated Wireless LAN (802.11g) - Atheros

I ran the internet configuration wizard and tried to set up a new wireless connection, but two steps in I am to pick a card from the list which doesn't include anything like Atheros or Generic integrated card etc.

Anyone know what installation will work with this laptop? and maybe anticiapte what problems I will see down the line?

Other posts here suggest downloading madwifi for a similar laptop, will that work for this? ( and to be honest not sure I understood all the instructions on that)

Relative linux newbie here any help is appreciated .

Thanks

Hello Rujholla,

A couple of things. Can you post back with the outputs from the following commands
Madwifi is still in the early stages of development and requires you to access the code via CVS - not too tough but if you are new to linux its not the easiest start. Ndiswrapper is much more widely used and may well work with your card. The output from the lspci command will let us know more.
Cheers
Chris

[root@localhost rujholla]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
01:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 33)
[root@localhost rujholla]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost rujholla]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:0D:AA:AAB
inet addr:192.168.123.208 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::208:dff:feaa:aadb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3610 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:700867 (684.4 KiB) TX bytes:251619 (245.7 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2150386 (2.0 MiB) TX bytes:2150386 (2.0 MiB)

the eth0 connection is a wired connection that I'm using atm.

install madwifi driver from cd and you should be laughing