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pcmcia gigafast wf721-aex
I've been having problems getting my 802.11b wireless pcmcia card to work under linux (red hat 9.0). After various digging around on the web, I think it uses the Atmel chip, because from what I read it's either that or a Prism chip, and the Prism is automatically configured in Linux. One thing that confuses me is the output from cardmgr ident:
Socket 0:
product info: "Dual Speed", "10/100 Port Attached PC Card", "1.0", " "
manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
product info: "Realtek", "Rtl8139"
manfid: 0x0000, 0x024c
function: 6 (network)
As you can see, this says the device uses a realteck rtl8139 chip, but this seems odd to me (the other socket is my 10/100 ethernet pcmcia card). Here is some more output info for you to look at:
ifconfig -a:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:98:8B:2C:98
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:9059876 (8.6 Mb) TX bytes:1513745 (1.4 Mb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:444089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:444089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:28161803 (26.8 Mb) TX bytes:28161803 (26.8 Mb)
lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
sd_mod 13516 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 107160 1 (autoclean) [sd_mod]
ide-cd 35708 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 33728 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
pcnet_cs 15072 1
8390 8508 0 [pcnet_cs]
ds 8680 2 [pcnet_cs]
yenta_socket 13472 2
pcmcia_core 57216 0 [pcnet_cs ds yenta_socket]
defxx 14420 0 (unused)
ipt_REJECT 3928 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15096 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ohci1394 20168 0 (unused)
ieee1394 48780 0 [ohci1394]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 59008 1 (autoclean)
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70784 1
jbd 51892 1 [ext3]
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller (rev 02)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller] (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 01)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2380 [MagicMedia 256XL+] (rev 10)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180 (rev 20)
For the atmel chip, I've tried installing the drivers from atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html. I even once tried to treat it as a Realteck chip (which I really don't think it is, but I could be completely wrong...) and used rtl8139, 8139too and some other drivers... but nothing worked. Please help me install my pcmcia wireless card, and hpefully along the way I'll learn how to install pcmcia stuff in general (I don't know what the 'proper' way of installing things is).
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