[TriLUG] A good PCMCIA wireless card for Redhat linux....

[dsandif]

Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:53, dsandif wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been battling with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 trying to get a Cisco
>> Aironet 350 and a Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g wireless adapter to work on
>> it. After much reading and fighting, it sounds like the latter card is
>> still fairly too new for RHEL 4 not to mention that Cisco only has
>> drivers for windows for it so I pulled it and popped in the 350. Tried
>> to follow the directions based on what Cisco says to:
>>
>> dohttp://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/wireless/airo_350/350card
>> s/linux/instlcfg/icglchp3.htm#wp1041126
>>
>> But to no avail. The sh ./cwinstall script they made wouldn't run even
>> after making sure it was in the proper directory, so I did a ./install
>> instead and got a couple of dependences, got them installed, re-ran
>> ./install and got more errors than I could begin to wrap my brain
>> around. Went and checked /vary/log/messages for any error messages or
>> notes and couldn't make any sense of it other that the fact that the
>> card wasn't working. Setting up wireless in Linux isn’t easy to begin
>> with and setting up wireless on Redhat is even worse. It could just be
>> my frustration talking here but
>> after battling with this for three days, I’ve just about had it. I
>> calmed down a bit enough to got do a check for hardware compatibility of
>> wireless cards and even though it was from 2004, I didn't see either
>> of my cards on the list which makes me wonder if I'm wasting my time
>> with Cisco. Looked at ndswrapper and still considering it. Are there
>> better PCMCIA wireless nics out there that won't drive you to near
>> insanity trying to set them up? I am actively searching the web as I
>> send this message so I know I'll get dozens of hits on this, but I did
>> want to see what the Linux community has to say about this, thxs.
>>
>> D-
>>     
>
> I tried cardbus cards from Linksys and Belkin -- no joy no matter what. Then I 
> tried a Linksys WUSB54G version 4 USB nic. It was drop dead easy with 
> ndiswrapper, and it was doable with Mandriva's packaged rt2570 driver.
>
> The way I see it, USB is no less convenient than cardbus/PCMCIA. With both, 
> you cannot leave the nic in when putting it in the case to carry it around. 
> The USB nics (at least the ones with cables) have the advantage of being able 
> to move them around for best signal.
>
> Here's how I got the WUSB54G version 4 to work:
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm#_Wireless_Compaq_Linksys_wusb54g
>
> HTH
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/
>   
Looks like a plan to me, but do you think it will work with Redhat 
Enterprise linux?

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