Need helpLinksys wireless

Forum: Networking
Topic: Need helpLinksys wireless
started by: Gary

Posted by Gary on Nov. 12 2004,14:07

Hi. I've jst dl'ed the latest samll linux, and it looks great. But my wireless netwok is not working out of the box so to speak. I'm a relative linux newbie, and I've seached the forums , but no easy fix appears to be availible. The card is model WPC11 version 4. I'm running from the cd. Is there anyway of fixing? Do i need to do a hard drive install first? I'd like to test it first before I blow away my windows XP partion as this is a used system given to me (I'm disabled) and have no disk or restore patition to bing it back if I need to., Be kind, and thanks

Posted by ico2 on Nov. 12 2004,14:13

ndiswrapper?

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 12 2004,15:42

I have a Linksys WPC11 ver3 and it autoloads the hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs drivers automatically

Perhaps if you forced them to load

Code Sample

modprobe hermes
modprobe orinoco
modprobe orinoco_cs

It would work...other than that im not fully sure on what might be the problem...the ndiswrapper might be your only other bet with that card

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Gary on Nov. 12 2004,17:16

Tgaks for your posts. Forcing thme from a termial propt gives me error, and a non-fuctuional card. Ndiswrrapewr says there are no supported cards found. What next? It also doesn't auto-detect them unfortunatly.

Posted by Gary on Nov. 12 2004,17:18

opps, Sorry I forgot to log in in previous post.

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 12 2004,17:41

If it is a pcmcia card it might be time to find a new one...if its a built in one make sure its on (might have an on/off switch)

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Gary on Nov. 13 2004,12:05

yes it is a pcmia card. And I've no intention of replace it, or get another laptop. I'm disabled and don"t have money to throw at the problem. It works perfectly under windows.

Posted by msuho on Nov. 15 2004,15:03

Gary-

I checked the ndiswrapper project page at sourceforge.net, and the WPC11 is listed as one of the cards people have got to work:

Card: Linksys WPC11 v4
Chipset: Realtek RTL8180L
pciid: 1186:3300
Driver: Don't use driver that ships with card. Use driver for RTL8180L from < http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=8180 >
Other: See D-Link DWL-510 (the pci-id part). Works fine with 2.6 kernel and ndiswrapper 0.8.

So you may wish to try the ndiswrapper route. If you not familiar with it, check out < http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ >

Good Luck,

Mark

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 15 2004,22:50

Awesome find bud...
Ndiswrapper is kind of experimental but when it works it works Damn good (pun intended) hehe

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Gary on Dec. 03 2004,10:59

Thanks for your help. But being diabled makes making anything too complicated hard to inplement. It needs to be easier than this. I just do not have what I use to have when it comes to tinkering uner the hood.