[wellylug] Asus Z8100 Fedora 3/4 USB Wireless Networking

[Pete Black]

Based on my cursory googling, it seems that SiS claim to support this 
chipset under linux, but that there actually isnt a working or supported 
driver for recent kernels.

However, the driverloader package can reportedly use the Windows driver 
hosted under Linux quite happily, though I have no experience setting 
this up myself (all my wireless LAN cards/USB dongles are supported 
under Linux natively) - it should be straightforward enough.

You are probably looking at a bit of messing around to get this working 
- compiling a recent version of driverloader, and writing a little 
script so that it is correctly loaded on boot. If you dont feel 
comfortable doing this level of work, you could bring it along to a 
WellyLUG meeting where someone will be able to have a crack at it, or if 
you are desperate to have it working soon I could do it for you if you 
can bring the laptop to my place - It will cost you a dozen beers though.

Contact me offlist if interested.

-Pete


> Good evening.
>
> I have purchased a Dick Smith Laptop - an Asus Z8100 with Windoze XP 
> and installed and updated Fedora 3.  All runs sweetly until I add a 
> wireless network to my office.  Suddnely I find that the integrated 
> wireless usb 802.11b adapter is not found under fedora.  I have found 
> out that it is a SIS-162.
>
> 2 weeks later I have read so many contradictory things I have no idea 
> if it is possible to make this work across my wireless network and I 
> am at my wits end.
>
> HELP!!
>
> Is there a simple, easy to follow way of 1.) recognising hardware and 
> 2.) making the blinking thing work. 
>
> I have tried using linuxant driver loader service with no joy.  Also 
> when i try to make a network connection, the network wizard wont see 
> the usb hardware.
>
> I am a great proponent of linux and how easy it is to make things go 
> as long as its neither network or usb related.
>
> Hope someone can help me
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
> PS I am running the lastest kernal update as of today