Wireless Connection Help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > I purchased a Linksys notebook adapter for my Dell Latitude which
> > is running FC2.  This adaptor is model WPC11 ver. 4.  Doing some
> > searching on the web it looks like like it should work but all of
> > the information I can find is old (RH9) or for other flavors of
> > Linux.
> >
> > Has anyone gotten this combination (FC2 & WPC11 v4) to work?  If
> > so can you help me?
>
> Which chipset does it have, Brad?  "lspci" should reveal it.  If it's
> a TI or Broadcom chipset, you'll need to use ndiswrapper and the
> Winblows driver from the CD/floppy that came with it.  ndiswrapper is
> at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net.
>
OK it says:

Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L
802.11b MAC (rev 20)

I found some reference to ndiswrapper running this chipset but
all the instructions seem to be for systems other than FC2 and I
haven't had any luck getting it to work.

Thanks,

Brad