[wellylug] DSE pcmcia wlan

[Sam Cannell]

The Dick Smiths 802.11b cards have a Realtek 8180 chipset, iirc.  I
bought one of them a few months back.

There is a source module available from Realtek's website.  After
massaging the Makefile a bit I managed to get it to build, but it
paniced the kernel when I tried to insmod it.

For what it's worth, I couldn't get the card working in Windows 2000
either.  It detected it fine, but I couldn't connect to any networks. 
Netstumbler didn't find any APs around, but I could connect fine using a
borrowed Intel card.

I would have taken it back, but I lost the reciept.

I ended up buying a 3Com OfficeConnect 3CRSHPW196 ($130ish from Ascent)
and it works perfectly in both Linux and Windows. :)

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 13:57, Rebecca Middleton wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about istalling DSE's pcmcia wlan 802.11b in
> linux? It says its got drivers for RH 7.1-7.3 but doesn't say anything
> else. I use Debian - kernal 2.4.19, or 2.4.20 (not sure, as i don't have
> my linux laptop on me at the moment). Any ideas?
-- 
Sam Cannell <sam at plaz.net.nz>
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