On a recent trip to Frys, armed with a print-out of the "supported cards" from the linux-wlan project, I found the only PCI based wifi card still with a supported chipset was the Netgear MA311 which still uses the prism2 chipset... I later confirmed this by contacting Netgear and pointedly asking them regarding the chipset of the card... The early DWL-520 were prism2 chipsets but not the newer revisions or the 520+... LinkSys WMP11 is now a BCM4301 and many others have switched to the Broadcom chipset which there is still no driver support for... Much like the support for Centrino... Regards, Jeremy On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:03:50AM -0700, Percival, Ray wrote: > I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520 thinking > it was a prisim2 chipset. Well it turned out that when I got it it is not a > prisim2 but rather a realtek. > > No problem they seem to have drivers. > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?software=True&compamod > el=RTL8180L#2002121Unix%20(Linux) > > So after looking at the drivers and playing with the Makefile for a bit I > get them to compile well. Insmod well and the driver shows up when I do > lsmod. I then did this. > > ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ifconfig wlan0 up > route add default gateway 192.168.1.1 > > ifconfig shows wlan0 as up and all looks well. When I attempt to ping > 192.168.1.1 I get no response and after playing with it for some time I > notice that everytime I try to ping out the wlan0 that the loopback > interface's tx and rx are incrementing. I have confirmed that there is a > route for 192.168.1.0 using wlan0 as it's interface and when I down wlan0 I > get hardware errors when trying to ping 192.168.1.1 just like I would expect > with a wired card. > > I'm at wits end and have read everything I can find and none of it seems to > be working. Also just as a another datum pump -i wlan0 fails also. > > Thanks for any help. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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