Dear Wizards of knowledge,
Beeing a sort-of linux-newbie, I am having a hard time getting my WIFI card
working on Mandrake 9.1, thus I would apreciate any and all help with this
issue.
Background:
HW: Dell Latitude C500, with internal 3com NIC.
WIFI adapter: 3Com Office Connect 11Mbps Wireless LAN CardBus PC Card
(3CRSHPW796). According to some info I found, this card comes with a ADMtek
chip.
3Com provides a RedHat 7.2 and 8.0 driver for the card, which I have
downloaded and tried to make work...
Problem:
I am not able to install this card.
Following the Ethernet-howto, Wireless howto and PCMCIA howto, I am just not
able to get my system to recognize the card.
(I did try to use a different card - a D-link 650+, and the system
(cardctl)found it, however, I was not able to install the drivers successfully
- thus I figured out that buying a card that comes with Linux drivers would be
the perfect choice for me... :| )
So - cardctl status reports a 3.3V cardbus card Function 0: [ready] in socket
1, while all other cardctl reports nothing found
so I guess my real question is: does anyone know how to get the RH drivers to
work in MD9.1? If so, can you kindly advice me please?
Is there anyone out there (sure there are...) who made this card work? How did
you do it?
Is there something obvious I forgot? (probably are ;)
Thank you for any and all replys.
Best regards,
Kai Roer
humble newbie looking for wizdom