sirchief

YOHOOO!

this message is sent from Lappy - my Dell Inspiron C500 with a 3Com 3CRSHPW796 card!

All that is missing now, is the automatically configuration at boot time!

Thank you for your patience :)

Kai

thank you :)

the warning actually throw me back until I check the URL it showed too - so, yes I knew :)

on good news - I was able to actually ping my gateway...so - things are coming around...manually configuring files around...not sure if I make the right adjustment in the wrong file, or the other way around :D

Still, I wonder how can I load the driver and make sure the card starts when I boot?

K

ok...booting the *.25 kernel...insmodding the driver, and getting the Tainted module warning.

Lamp on card changes from steady green, to blinking green (ref. manual, indicates datatransfere or activity)...

imho - driver works...now - on to configuration :)

to be continued...

heh, thanks for your reply anyway :) I wish you luck!

I took a second look into the RH driver tarball, and found a src directory...So, now I try to make mandrake drivers for the card.

First, I urmpi the source, and found that the source I got was 2.4.21.0.25mdk, while I had a kernel *.13mdk ... which I found out while trying to insmod the new driver...

so, now I have installed the *.25 kernel, and hoping it will work...(yes, I am newbie, so I have no idea as how to "activate" the new kernel...I hope it works after a restart :D

to be continued...

Kai

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