hello i am new to linux and just recently did a clean install on my ibm t20 laptop and popped in my linksys WPC11. I am also using a BEFW11S4 everything works great except for my wireless card. ive read all the posts concerning the orinoco wireless driver. I have tried everything with no success. here is my output from iwconfig and ifconfig
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:8F
F:C9
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key
ff
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:92/92 Signal level:5/153 Noise level:115/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1285 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:25:16:1F:02
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:206 errors:2225 dropped:2225 overruns:0 frame:1272
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:290219 (283.4 Kb) TX bytes:3060 (2.9 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:25:16:1F:02
inet addr:127.255.255.255 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8132 (7.9 Kb) TX bytes:8132 (7.9 Kb)
can someone please help? i am about to give up on this. also my eth0 is being recognized as a Tekram Airmate PCF200 wireless lan card. I also do not understand were this eth0:9 is coming from but it has the same hw address as my eth0 which is my wireless card.
