sirchief Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Hmm I hope someone can help. If you download the redhat package and just rpm --install <package name> thats your best bet. Im busy trying to get a 55mb/sec without linux drivers working so I can be sympathetic ., just not much help :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchief Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchief Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 not sure if you know, but don't worry about the tainted module warning. that just means the module isn't GPL and technically taints the kernel. it's not an actual "problem", per se. nvidia drivers give the same error. wasn't sure if you knew that but thought i'd tell ya anyways ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchief Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchief Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyjak Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 OK, I truly am a LINUX newbie. I believe I'm trying to perform basically the same thing you just did. I have a Linksys wireless eithernet card installed on an old HP desktop running Mandrake 9.1. I'm having problems getting connected to the internet, my network everything. The card is flashing solid green light but I can't ping myself(127.0.0.1) or anything else for that matter. Any advice? Thanks, Jody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosterrj Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 wow, you're lucky! I cant even get anything out of /sbin/cardctl -ident for my D-Link DWL-650 (no +)!! Just plain ole vanilla 802.11b. I had the 650+ and got card info, but I took it back for a refund thinking I wouldn't get it working. D'Oh! Anyone know what chipset is really in the 650? I have some drivers for the ADM8211, but they wont compile without errors. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted November 30, 2003 Report Share Posted November 30, 2003 I am trying to do the same thing with the USB LinkSys Adapter, it is definately a whole new frontier for me :) I don't seem to have the /sbin/cardctl command, is this another package I am missing ?I ran urpmi prism2-x.x.x.rpm and it didn't have any package discrepancies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosterrj Posted November 30, 2003 Report Share Posted November 30, 2003 well, make sure you run cardctl as root, but I'm not sure it would apply to a USB interface anyway. I think its primarily for PCMCIA stuff. I am having better luck with linuxant.com driver wrappers - I actually got the card to be found by the OS yesterday, just couldn't get an IP from my DSL modem. But, at least a little progress. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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