[PLUG] Wireless on Sarge

Dan McDonald colonel_panic at softhome.net
Thu Jan 6 01:14:53 UTC 2005


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Hoult, Harlan wrote:
| - the card is a Linksys WPC11 ver. 3

This looks like a job for ndiswrapper <http://ndiswrapper.sf.net>. I
have had my troubles with it in the past on Gentoo (works fine now), but
it has worked flawlessly in my limited experience with Debian (Knoppix,
actually). Although, I don't have the same card as you.

ndiswrapper is a kernel module (with a userspace configure utility) that
lets you use Windows wireless drivers on Linux. I looked up your card on
the ndiswrapper's wiki and the closest match I found was for the WPC11
ver. 4. Do a `lspci -n` and if '1186:3300' is listed, this should work.

The chipset in your card is a RealTek and they provide Linux drivers for
the 2.4.x kernel and a few variations of Windows. The chipset I use (TI
1130) only works with the XP drivers and ndiswrapper but YMMV. Aside
from a normal ndiswrapper setup, to use the good RealTek driver, you
need to go out of your way and modify an .INF file packaged with the
driver: <http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsamwel/dwl-510-on-linux-2.6.html>

Good Luck!

	Dan
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