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• August Dalling

  

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  August 28, 2011 1:42 PM PDT

  I have just installed on my 12 year old fujitsu lifebook B-2131, all seems fine most stuff is detected ok and running quite quick for something with only 192mb of memory and a 400mhz processor! really impressed. wired network is fine, but i cannot seem to get wireless working, the laptop has a pcmcia port and I have an array of cards:

  Lucient wavelan

  Edimax EW-7106PC

  3com 11mbps WIreless lan officeconnect (3CRSHPW196)

  DLINK DWL-630

  none of which seem to want to work, the closest i get is the edimax which at least detects my wireless network before failing to authenticate. (even when i set my wireless secutity on my netgear wap to pretty lax and frankly dangerous open security)

  any Ideas how to better fine tune the wireless or configure ndiswrapper on wattos4? ideally I'd like to use the Dlink (uses Ra61 driver) or the 3com (as the ariel folds up on this card so it is neat and darn groovy, pity it is only 11mbit but then i'm using the laptop just to surf t'internet so i'm not fussed with speed much.)

• biff baxter

  

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  August 28, 2011 11:59 PM PDT

  Hi August can you post the output of lspci from a command line with the card plugged in you want to work.

   

  tks,

  biff

  
  This post was edited by biff baxter at August 29, 2011 12:00 AM PDT
• August Dalling

  

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  August 29, 2011 4:25 AM PDT

  ldpci output from my Dlink DWL-G630
  
  
  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82440MX Host Bridge (rev 01)
  00:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82440MX AC'97 Audio Controller
  00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82440MX ISA Bridge (rev 01)
  00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82440MX EIDE Controller
  00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82440MX USB Universal Host Controller
  00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82440MX Power Management Controller
  00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08)
  00:11.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems F-1156IV WinModem (V90, 56KFlex) (rev 01)
  00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
  00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems Cyber 9525 (rev 49)
  01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
  
• August Dalling

  

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  August 29, 2011 4:34 AM PDT

  the 3com office connect card does not detect at all with lspci so i think i'm not going to get far with that one.
• biff baxter

  

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  August 30, 2011 1:29 PM PDT

  Go ahead and post your lsusb and iwconfig also please with the card plugged in. :)
  
  looks like that dlink will need ndiswrapper. do you have the windows driver, or a download of them? If so, we should be able to work through the process to make it work.
  
  biff

  
  This post was edited by biff baxter at August 30, 2011 1:34 PM PDT
• August Dalling

  

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  August 30, 2011 1:54 PM PDT

  found an old cisco aironet card which seems to work like a charm! but if you want me to try to get the dlink working to help others i can if you'd like.