wireless lan on compaq evo 600c

[ICA00]

Well I got this pcmcia wireless network card (802.11b) witch came with my laptop (compaq cameo). It's a brandless card. A OUI search returned it was build by "cameo" and I guess it's the wlb-1100 model from cameo .
I spent hours and hours trying to get this thing working (at first on FC1) on FC2.

Can anyone help me here?

My 2nd problem is probably also that I'm a linux newb :o

TIA

greetzz
Pete

[Icarus]

Try scanpci to find exactly what chipset it is using, that will give you a list of every PCI card and BUS system on you machine. Then we'll go from there when we know exactly what you have.

[ICA00]

Ok, done...

The only unknown device on the list is from Realtek with this msg:

pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10ec device 0x8180 Realtek Semiconductor *blah blah* Device unknown

that's all :)

[Icarus]

heh, I think that *blah blah* is what we needed :)

From what I can tell, it should work with the prism2 drivers.

Try modprobe prism2

I would think that the GUI for setting up network devices should be able to 'see' it as a wireless device...if not, you may want to try the ndiswrapper if it doesn't use the prism2
http://ndiswrapper.sf.net

[ICA00]

hmm strange, it just said Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd ;)

I've tried the modprobe prism2 ... and it din't work

I've also did a google search on "realtek 0x8180" and this appears to be the RTL8180 chipset witch come with downloadable linux drivers :D

I think it's worth a try (once I've figured out how to install them :D)

[Icarus]

That's worth a shot, how new are these drivers? Got a link to them?

I've found a few referances that state that the ndiswrapper has been used with this chipset and it works since version .10

[ICA00]

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=RTL8180

one is for a 2.4.18 kernel, 2.96 gcc and the other is 2.4.20 kernel, 3.2.2 gcc
since my fc2 is a 2.6.5 they are probably to old :(

i've just finished downloading ndiswrapper so I guess I'm gonna try that one...

[ICA00]

The install file says that there should be a link to the kernel source from the modules dir
Where can I find the kernel source??

[Icarus]

you'll have to get the kernel-source RPM off the CD or you could use yum to install it

yum install kernel-source