Thanks for help. Have been out of town for over 2 weeks and now have to wrassle 1040's for a while. Did fire CentOS-2 and installed CentOS-4 i386, with a 2.6.9.22.EL kernel. Robert, just got your message. Look forward to seeing you at the next cwe-lug. Tony
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Central West End Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] wireless pcmcia > > On Feb 9, 2006, at 2:13 PM, anthony lordi wrote: > >> I've had trouble and still have with the Linksys WPC11v.4 wireless. > > IIRC, you are trying to use this card under a 2.4 Linux kernel. > Unfortunately, the Open Source driver was designed for the 2.6 > kernel, although the author says it may work with 2.4. As for > ndiswrapper, it looks as though you need 2.6 or a later 2.4 kernel, > according to the ndsiwrapper install page: > > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation > > "You need a recent kernel at least 2.6.6 or 2.4.26 with source" > > From what you've written before you currently have 2.4.9 on CentOS. > You probably want to upgrade your kernel, if possible, and then use > ndiswrapper. > > One thing we should have done and didn't because we ran out of time > was to run Knoppix on your machine and try the card with > ndiswrapper. It worked on my machine so it should have worked on > yours. Doing that would demonstrate whether or not the card will > work on your machine. > > Tony, what are you doing this weekend? Wanna meet up at a Bread Co > for an hour or so to see if we can hash this out? I'm game on both > Saturday and Sunday afternoon. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
