Installing wireless pcmcia card on Fedora

[Yohhan]

What are the steps I need to take to install drivers for my Linksys WPC11v3 PC card on my Fedora Linux laptop? I'm having a lot of trouble with this. I went to the Linksys site to download their Linux drivers, and the "make config" fails. Can anyone give me a walkthrough?

Thanks ahead.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Why did the make config fail?

 

[Yohhan]

It told me the source tree /usr/src/linux is incomplete. Not sure what that means.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Yohhan
It told me the source tree /usr/src/linux is incomplete. Not sure what that means.

It means you don't have all of the sources in /usr/src/linux.

That's usually where people put the kernel source, despite the readme (which I don't think has changed since 2.0) says not to.

EDIT: The way it is setup for me in slackware, is I have a symlink from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-xxx where xxx is the version of the kernel I'm using.

 

[drag]

make sure that you have the kernel-sources stuff installed. If it is, try making a symbolic link between /usr/src/linux and whatever /usr/src/linux-xxx that matches the kernel version that your using.

 

[Yohhan]

Found the directory. However, now it wants the pcmcia-cs source directory. No idea where this one is either. The default is /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31, but that directory does not exist on my machine. Any suggestions?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Get the pcmcia-cs source code. Check rpmfind.net

 

[drag]

Fedora should have Yum package manager installed by default, check it out using it and see if you can find it.

Anyways...
You trying to install the drivers from the CD or something? You may already have drivers aviable by default...
try these commands:

modprobe orinoco
modprobe hermes
modprobe orinoco_cs

and then check the output of dmesg and iwconfig..

at least that's what they said here...

 

[Yohhan]

I ran those commands.

iwconfig in the past hasn't shown an AP MAC address. Now it looks like it might be picking up an AP that isn't mine. There's a MAC listed and an ESSID of "linksys" (which isn't my AP). So the drivers must be installed. But I'm not getting an IP address, and I'm not sure how to direct it to see my AP and not this other one.

 

[Yohhan]

Okay, now I run iwconfig and it finds my Access Point. However, I can't get an IP address. I placed my encryption key in the ifcfg-eth1 file, but still nothing. Any suggestions?