I'm trying to set up a wireless card on an older Thinkpad 380Z.  I've 
found lots of bits and pieces of information in help files and HOW-TOs, 
but I must be missing some step of the process.  Can anyone give an 
overview of how to set up a wireless pc card?

I have Debian "testing" version, kernel 2.4.25-1-386.  The wireless card 
is a Trendnet TEW-226PC cardbus PC card.

With the command "lspci -v" I get:
0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller:  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20) ...
so I know at least something "sees" the card in the slot, and that it 
appears to use the RTL8180 chip.

I've found a driver "ndiswrapper" that's supposed to work with the 
RTL8180 (at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/  there's a link to 
Debian packages).  I downloaded the ndiswrapper packages and installed 
them (though I am beginning to think there is something I've missed 
here); now with the command "ndiswrapper -l" I get "Installed ndis 
drivers: net8180".

In some of the info pages I look at I see references to "wlan0" device, 
but I can't find that device in my system ("ifconfig" etc.).  That's why 
I'm not sure if the driver setup is complete.  Ah-ha!  Maybe this needs 
to be compiled into the kernel -- if so, how do I do that?

The network does work OK with a Linksys Ethernet (wired) card as "eth0".

Anyone with any experience with setting up wireless cards?  Thanks for 
any hints!

Kraig



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