Wireless Network question
 

Hi-
First off i am a little new to this so bear with me. I am runing Suse10 on an older sony Vaio notebook. I went out to get a wireless network card yesterday (linksys wpc11, PCMCIA). And i am having some problems with it. Can i just use Yast to configure it? and what kernel module do i use? I would assume one of the prism ones but which one?

Thanks

In theory, YaST should let you configure your wireless card, depending on what chipset it uses. Let us know the exact make + model of the wireless card and we should be able. Or, even better, check out the HCL on this site to see if other members have already detailed how to get it going. Chances are you might need to install a separate driver through ndiswrapper or madwifi, etc. but that can be explained once we know the exact card you have :)

the card is a linksys wpc11 v4. PCMCIA

Am i missing something or are you not telling us what the router is?

The router is a linksys wireless router, i put the wep paraphrase in and everything. I don't know if suse is recongizing the PCMCIA card, everytime i look it says that there is not a card detected. As far as i can tell all the packages for PCMCIA are compiled and installed. is there a way to check?

I have Linksys WPC11 V4 as well. When I was running kernel-2.4.27 I was able to get it to run, but then I updated to kernel-2.6.12 and have not been able to get it to run since.

Under kernel-2.4.27
cardctl returned Socket 0:, product info: "Realtek", "Rtl8139", manfid: 0x0000, 0x024c

ndiswrapper -l returned Installed ndis drivers: net8180 driver present, hardware present

ndiswrapper -i NET8180.INF returns already installed
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Under kernel-2.6.12
cardctl returns No product info available

ndiswrapper -l returns same

ndiswrapper -i NET8180.INF returns the same.

iwconfig wlan0 mode managed returns SET failed on device wlan0; no such device.

Other iwconfig commands no longer work as well.

I appreciate any help on this problem.

kernel-2.6.12, debian testing, kde 3.4.2, HP notebook

bruce
bdegrasse1@comcast.net