WiFi for a laptop
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Jul 7 16:47:33 UTC 2007
Richard England wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Richard England wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>
>>> Sheesh.
>>>
>>> Why don't you post the output from lspci so everyone can see it.
>>> You probably have a NIC (Network Interface Card) as well as a WiFI
>>> card.
>>> I would suspect the Atheros is the WiFi but with no evidence it is
>>> hard to know.
>>>
>> You are right. It is the Atheros because it has MAC811 in it's
>> name and the other one is the eth0 ethernet divice. So I know the
>> name of my device, how do I use that to select a proper driver from
>> the many?
>>
>> As for posting the whole list, It is on a laptop with no Internet.
>> I could make a file of it and put it on a Flash drive, bring it to
>> this computer and add it to a message. Too much work.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
> You need to configure yum to access the livna repository and install
> kmod-madwifi.i686 from there. That should give you the kernel module
> needed to support the Atheros chip set. Since you seem to think
> NetworkManager won't work, you might also consider installing
> madwifi.i386 which will give you some diagnostic tools you can use to
> get information about your madwifi Atheros wireless connections.
>
> I'm using a PCMCIA card so my configuration will be different in
> details but the chipset should be similar and it works fine...even
> with NetworkManager.
>
> More information available at http://www.madwifi.org/
>
I have been there and I have yum installed 2 rpm files with madwifi
in their names. I will use NetworkManager assuming the testing I am
doing at the moment will work well. When the test is complete and
successful I will work again on the laptop.
Karl
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