[TriLUG] Linksys wireless card under linux

Lee Fickenscher elfick at trilug.org
Thu Mar 13 13:44:38 EST 2003


Jonathan,
Unfortunately I won't be able to make it tonight, but I have a few
pointers for you...
Depending on your linksys version, the following instructions should
work: 
http://forums.gentoo.org/faq.php#11

If that doesn't work, and you have one of the newer linksys cards based
on either a TI or Broadcom chip, then you are probably out of luck until
someone writes a driver.

What model and revision is your card?

Good Luck,
Lee

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:47:53AM -0500, Rippy, Jonathan wrote:
> 
> I have an 802.11b Linksys wireless card and a dual booting Sony VAIO.  
> 
> I have OEM XP on /dev/hda1 and Gentoo Linux on /dev/hda2
> 
> I have an integrated ethernet card working as eth0 along with X and
> Sound and the DVD/CDRW combo drive.
> 
> That leaves my Linksys wireless card as the last piece in my puzzle.
> I've been using Linux for a long time but I've never tried to get
> PCMCIA/PC-CARD (whatever it's being called this week) working under
> Linux.
> 
> I plan on being at the meeting this evening if anyone has some time to
> try and help me get this Linksys card working under Linux (specifically
> Gentoo of course).
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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