[wplug] need a pci wireless card? give this a whirl

[Bryon Gill]

Heh, I came to the same solution with my SMC 2602W pci wireless card.  
This driver taints your kernel because it's not GPL, 
but it works fine for me.

I didn't need to reboot for what it's worth, once you insmod just 
establish a dhcp connection in whatever your prescribed manner is (for my 
debian box it's pump -i eth1, on redhat there's a nice graphical network 
manager)

Bryon

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Beth Lynn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to confirm that the wireless pci ethernet card
> that Bill Moran is selling work in Linux. He's still has a
> few more pci and pcmcia wireless cards left...
> http://www.wplug.org:8080/pipermail/wplug-market/2004-January/000048.html
> 
> It took a while for me to find drivers that work but once I did
> everything came together just nicely.
> 
> lspci identifies the card as...
> 00:0e.0 Network controller: Linksys: Unknown device 8201 (rev 11)
> 
> Don't waste your time attempting to use the orinico drivers or the
> belkin drivers like some newgroups posters might want you to try.
> Take a good look at the card and notice the chip is made by some 
> folks that calls themselves "admtek"
> 
> Then go to this site...
> http://www.admtek.com.tw/download/ADM8211.htm
> 
> If you've got rh7.3 or 8.0 they have rpms for you.
> 
> The system I was working with is Fedora Core 1 running the
> 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl kernel so I moved on to download the tar.gz 
> file (rev 1.03). 
> Unzip, untar, make, cp 8211.o to 
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2149.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
> insmod 8211.o (ignore the whine about "tainting the kernel")
> and reboot
> kudzu detects like a champ
> Now my new gameroom system is up on the net!
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Beth Lynn
> 
> PS As I was hacking our this email, low and beyond this mail drops
> into my inbox...
> http://www.wplug.org:8080/pipermail/wplug/2004-January/009325.html
> Shawn- my first guess it to look at the hardware carefully. Just
> cuz lspci thinks it's a linksys, that doesn't mean it's a linksys.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
>