I couldn't figure out from your post what Linux driver you need to install into the kernel. We need to know what wireless chipset is being used (example: prism, orthinco) I went to the trendnet website and noticed that they have linux drivers for older cards that use the ADMtek ADM8211 Linux driver. It may mean that you can use the ADMtek ADM8211 Linux driver to get your system to work. Take a look at http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/AdmTek I looked under Debian and couldn't find a ADM8211 package, so you will have to build the module from source. The linux-wlan-ng is used for the prism chipset. Jeff Rasmussen -----Original Message----- From: Kraig Jones [mailto:jkjones at tcq.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:54 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: [TCLUG] Wireless setup I'm trying to set up a wireless card on an older Thinkpad 380Z. I've found lots of bits and pieces of information in help files and HOW-TOs, but I must be missing some step of the process. Can anyone give an overview of how to set up a wireless pc card? I have Debian "testing" version, kernel 2.4.25-1-386. The wireless card is a Trendnet TEW-226PC cardbus PC card. With the command "lspci -v" I get: 0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20) ... so I know at least something "sees" the card in the slot, and that it appears to use the RTL8180 chip. I've found a driver "ndiswrapper" that's supposed to work with the RTL8180 (at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ there's a link to Debian packages). I downloaded the ndiswrapper packages and installed them (though I am beginning to think there is something I've missed here); now with the command "ndiswrapper -l" I get "Installed ndis drivers: net8180". In some of the info pages I look at I see references to "wlan0" device, but I can't find that device in my system ("ifconfig" etc.). That's why I'm not sure if the driver setup is complete. Ah-ha! Maybe this needs to be compiled into the kernel -- if so, how do I do that? The network does work OK with a Linksys Ethernet (wired) card as "eth0". Anyone with any experience with setting up wireless cards? Thanks for any hints! Kraig _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list