linksys Wireless-G PCI, WMP54G

[Rick Stevens]

Kevin W. English wrote:
> Hello,
>   i just installed fedora over an old mandrake system. everything's
> working well except the linksys wireless-G card (WMP54G). I installed the
> ndis wrapper to load the windows driver, got thamoduel inserted and the
> windows driver loaded but i'm unable to get an ip address for the
> interface using the iwconfig and dhclient commands.
>   I was just wondering if anyone has a setup using this card and how they
> got it to work. also how to get it to work on startup....

Uh, well, I've got a Broadcom BCM94306 running using the same stuff.
The first thing to check is "iwconfig" and verify that the card has
picked up your ESSID and channel properly.

If that's right, make sure you have an
"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx" script that specifies the
device name ("DEVICE=ethx") and boot protocol ("BOOTPROTO=dhcp").  For
example, on my Fujitsu Lifebook C2220 where the wireless stuff shows up
as eth1:

[root at golem root]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"mywirelessESSID"
           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.442GHz  Cell: 00:80:C8:AA:C3:A6
           Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power:14 dBm
           RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
           Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx   Security
		mode:restricted
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:0  Signal level:198  Noise level:0
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

[root at golem root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Built-in Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g or PCMCIA-based D-Link DWL-650
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

Then dhclient should work.

To make it all work automatically is a bit more, uh, clunky, as you must
add a stanza to "/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts" file that reflects what you
want to do, make sure you have the stuff in your /etc/modules.conf file
set up (as mentioned in the "README" file that came with ndiswrapper),
and the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx file configured.  An
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" or a reboot should make it go.
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