Subject: Re: RH 8.0 on VMware, no network connections? Help!
From: Fielder George Dowding (fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 23:31:27 AKST
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:21:09 -0800 (PST)
Wesley Brown <webtacsat@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am having some trouble understanding my network settings in RH
> 8.0. I installed RH on VMware on my Windows XP laptop. Anyway I
> have done some research but I feel that I may be more confused
> now. This link seems like it may be helpful but I can't sort it
> all out.
> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/DlinkDwl650Plus?action=print
Thank you very much Wesley Brown for this site. I have a D-Link
DWL-650+ PCMCIA card for my laptop also. I had given up looking for
a suitable driver. I was hanging on to the "Laptop Networking Kit" I
bought from COSTCO because it was such a good deal. It is still in
the plastic thing because Damien Hull has the same thing and has it
working under Windows but couldn't find drivers for Linux or BSD. I
figured I would hang on to the "Kit" until someone came out with a
driver. I have not downloaded anything yet, but this site looks as
if it is my best bet to date.
> If anyone has any chance to look at it I would appreciate it. I
> have the D-link 650+ card and an internal ethernet card,
The wireless card is just another nic as far as the o/s is
concerned. Therefore, each needs its own IRQ and I/O address when
both are installed. I have a Linksys EC2T Combo PCMCIA Ethernet card
and a Linksys WPC11 ver. 3 "Instant Wireless" Network PC Card. I
found I cannot have both in my laptop (Sony Vaio PCG F250) at the
same time because of IRQ and I/O conflict. There may be a solution,
but I have not pursued one because I have many other things to do
and I will just have to suffer with only one connection to the LAN
at a time (when I get the wireless part working).
<gratuitous comment>I don't know how VMware handles the interface to
the hardware, but I understand you are running VMware on WXP. I have
heard running VMware on Linux works better. </gratuitous comment>
>neither
> are working with RH, but they work with Windows. My main
> question is, when I add the wireless card to my Network
> Configuration it is in the list of possible cards... does that
> mean that there are drivers already installed for it?
In my experience, no. The pcmcia_core module and friends recognizes
the WPC11 hardware (IRQ, I/O, and other stuff). To the hardware, it
is just another nic, so I can set the IPA with ifconfig. The problem
is the driver for the radio tranceiver (which is much like the
Ethernet tranceiver which transmits and receives in the "base"band
~0 to 20MHz). It appears that the WAP11 ver. 2.2 uses the same chip
radio tranceiver as our D-Link-650Plus. So, it is "roll-yer-own"
time to make the hardware do what it is designed to do.
See the discussion on
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWap11
> My main
> problem is that when I try to activate the card or the ethernet
> port it fails. I really believe all my settings are correct. I
> have tried DHCP (because I have a home network with the D-link
> wireless router) and I have tried assigning IP's... nothing
> works. I am despate, please help.
>
Cheerio! fgd.
-- Fielder George Dowding, Chief Iceworm dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska Since 1976 - Over 25 Years of Service.--------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
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