WiFi for a laptop

[Karl Larsen]

Fred Erickson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 18:05 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>     
>>> On 06Jul2007 16:40, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi Sam, if Windows is right the WAN miniport is a L2TP whatever that is. 
>>>> The CPU is Intel and can step down in speed from about 2791 MHz. Since you 
>>>> have two laptops working can you point me to any help you used? I have the 
>>>> latest kernel 3232 that has a lot of stuff in modules and I can get them to 
>>>> work if I knew how.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It's worth checking the output of the "lspci" command under linux.
>>> For example, mine includes these lines:
>>>
>>>   02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
>>>   02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
>>>
>>> The bottom one is my WiFi interface.
>>>
>>> My /etc/modprobe.conf file says (amongst other things):
>>>
>>>   alias eth0 e1000
>>>   alias eth1 ipw2200
>>>
>>> which causes the command "modprobe eth1" to load the ipw2200 module.
>>>
>>> I'd imagine the "system-config-network" command should figure this out on its
>>> own for the common cases. How's it do for you?
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Well mine is no where as clear as yours. I have two so called 
>> ethernet cards in my laptop. One is a Atheros Communications Inc. and 
>> the other is a Realtek Semiconductor Co. so I'm not sure which is what. 
>> Guess I will run both through Google.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>     
>
> Karl, I'm no expert on this but my laptop (older Sony w/AMD cpu) running
> Fedora 7 is using a pcmcia wifi card from Belkin with an Atheros chip.
> The driver from Madwifi works great - shows up as ath0.
>
> Fred
>
>   
    OK and sounds like your right. I do have a Atheros chip! I think 
Madwifi is in my kernel modules but will check to be sure. So I now know 
what to find based on the known Atheros chip. Will see if this works.

Karl