On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:53:53AM -0500, Kraig Jones wrote: > 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? I think that you may need an alias line in /etc/modutils/aliases. I don't use ndiswrappers, but I think that you need a line like: alias wlan0 net8180 I believe wlan0 is just a "standard" name to simplify things due to the fact that there are dozens of different wireless drivers - just like eth0. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list