tellus c130 802.11b wifi card?
Forum: Networking
Topic: tellus c130 802.11b wifi card?
started by: king_crimson
Posted by king_crimson on June 11 2005,21:02
hi, i have a tellus model c130 wifi network card, and i was wondering if i can get to work in DSL. it's a PCMCIA cardbus card.if anything i guess i could use ndiswrapper right? i've tried that and it doesnt work. which version of windows driver do i have to use on it? (98, xp, 2000, or nt?)
thanks
-mike
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on June 11 2005,21:45
Try using the recommended driver listed on the ndiswrapper site.
Posted by king_crimson on June 19 2005,01:02
it doesn't list one... if i load the XP drivers into ndiswrapper and the light on the card doesn't turn on, that means its not compatible, right? 
Posted by tempestuous on June 19 2005,04:26
I just tried to find out what chipset your wireless adapter uses. Tellus doesn't seem to want anyone to know, but some of their other models use Prism2, so you could just go ahead and try the Prism2 driver in DSL (from linux-wlan-ng).Launch the DSLpanel, then click Prism2.
Enter your SSID, and enter your WEP key - making sure to place a colon between every 2 characters.
Click OK.
Ping your wireless router to check if it's working.
Posted by king_crimson on June 19 2005,04:42
thanks... ok i untarred the latest version of the lwan project but it seems DSL doesnt have a "make" command in bash. whats up with that???i cant compile the software
Posted by tempestuous on June 19 2005,06:09
No, don't compile the linux-wlan-ng package, it's already there. DSL is a small distribution ... if you want build tools, you need to install the gcc dsl package from the download section.And now that I think about it, some diagnosis is probably in order first - run lsmod before inserting your wireless adaptor. Take note of what's there.
Then insert your wireless adaptor and run lsmod again. Hopefully you will see a driver loaded ... and I suspect it will be prism2_cs (the Prism2 pcmcia driver).
(If it's something else, hopefully you will now know what driver is involved and then find out how to configure it.)
If prism2_cs is listed, or nothing at all, just follow the instructions I gave above. The Prism2 button in the DSLpanel launches a somewhat lengthy script which will configure your wireless connection.