Setting up a Wireless card

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This little guide will help you install the following Wireless network card into Fedora Core 3 :)

 

Code:

card "ATMEL 11 Mbps Wireless RFMD PCMCIA Card"
card "ATMEL 11 Mbps Wireless 504 PCMCIA Card"
card "ATMEL 11 Mbps Wireless 504A PCMCIA Card"
card "ATMEL 11 Mbps Wireless 504+2958 PCMCIA Card"
card "ATMEL 11 Mbps Wireless RFMD Revision D PCMCIA Card"
card "ATMEL 11 Mbps Wireless RFMD Revision E PCMCIA Card"
card "Sitecom WLAN-011"
card "Belkin F5D6020"
card "3Com 3CRWE62092B 11Mbps WLAN PC Card"
card "3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless LAN PC Card"
card "SMC 2632W V2 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
card "SMC 2632W V3 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
card "Actiontec 802CAT1"
card "BT Voyager 1020"
card "Siemens Gigaset PC Card II"
card "CNet CNWLC-811ARL"
card "Planet WL-3552"
card "OEM 11Mbps WLAN PCMCIA Card"
card "11WAVE WaveBuddy RFMD Revision E PC Card"
card "LG LW2100N 11Mbps WLAN PCMCIA Card"

 

The first set to installing your card is to check that it can be picked up the hardware. issue

the following command

 

Code:

cardctl ident

 

You should get a response back similar to the following

 

Code:

Socket 0:
 product info: " ", "WCard"
 manfid: 0xd601, 0x0007
 function: 6 (network)

 

Once that is done you can download the atmel drivers from [/url][url=http://thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/]http://thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/

download the Fedora core 3 version and do rpm -i <package.rpm>

 

once that is done restart the pcmcia by issueing the following

 

Code:

/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

 

once that is done do tail /var/log/messages you shoul see your wireless card as shown below:

 

Code:

Mar  5 16:45:25 localhost kernel: eth1: Atmel at76c50x wireless. Version 0.96 simon@thekelleys.org.uk
Mar  5 16:45:25 localhost kernel: eth1: Sitecom WLAN-011 index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x011f

 

Well thats it hope this helps you :)