WiFi for a laptop
Fred Erickson
frederickson at iname.com
Sat Jul 7 06:57:55 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 18:05 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 06Jul2007 16:40, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Sam, if Windows is right the WAN miniport is a L2TP whatever that is.
> >> The CPU is Intel and can step down in speed from about 2791 MHz. Since you
> >> have two laptops working can you point me to any help you used? I have the
> >> latest kernel 3232 that has a lot of stuff in modules and I can get them to
> >> work if I knew how.
> >>
> >
> > It's worth checking the output of the "lspci" command under linux.
> > For example, mine includes these lines:
> >
> > 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
> > 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
> >
> > The bottom one is my WiFi interface.
> >
> > My /etc/modprobe.conf file says (amongst other things):
> >
> > alias eth0 e1000
> > alias eth1 ipw2200
> >
> > which causes the command "modprobe eth1" to load the ipw2200 module.
> >
> > I'd imagine the "system-config-network" command should figure this out on its
> > own for the common cases. How's it do for you?
> >
> Well mine is no where as clear as yours. I have two so called
> ethernet cards in my laptop. One is a Atheros Communications Inc. and
> the other is a Realtek Semiconductor Co. so I'm not sure which is what.
> Guess I will run both through Google.
>
> Karl
>
Karl, I'm no expert on this but my laptop (older Sony w/AMD cpu) running
Fedora 7 is using a pcmcia wifi card from Belkin with an Atheros chip.
The driver from Madwifi works great - shows up as ath0.
Fred
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