Network Card SMC2635W (ADM8211 Chipset) Setup

[Terry Polzin]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 14:07, Ian Wallace wrote:
> I've searched the archives and tried numerous things however I don't
> seem to be able to get my wireless card to work with Fedora Core 1.
>
> I've downloaded the driver source from ADMtek and compiled it using the
> kernel sources for the kernel I'm running (2188.nptl).  That works ok,
> and when I pop in the card I can see in /var/log/messages that it
> recognizes the card, and loads the 8211 driver.
>
> Beyond that though ... nothing.  The power / activity light comes on, it
> tries to associated itself with eth0 however never receives an IP from
> the access point.
>
> I've tried the wireless howto's and am a i bit confused if this should
> be showing up as wlan0 or eth0, or eth1.  Would someone be so kind as to
> point me the correct direction for information on how to configure
> this?  Or where else things might be going wrong?
>
> TIA
>
> ian
>
> --
> Ian Wallace <iwallace at eforceglobal.com>


What devices show up when you run redhat-config-network?
Mayby you need to restart networking as well