prism 2.5 wifi card and fedora core 1

[JOHNGALT99]

what do i need to do to get a prism 2.5 wifi card to work in fedora core 1?

sorta new to linux so please explain in simple terms, tryed googled and get lost with some of the anwsers

thanks

 

[JOHNGALT99]

anyone?

 

[drag]

I donno, were you lost?

Prism54 cards were incorporated into the kernel around 2.6.5, if you have a kernel like that or newer it will make things easy.

is your card one of these?

For instance I have a "EZConnect" SMC2835W card, it's a 2.4GHZ 54Mbps 802.11g card, and it's a plug-n-play affair with my laptop running Fedora Core2.

The only gotcha is that you need to have firmware installed... and there are copies of it at the website.

If your card is a earlier version then the prism54. I am not that knowledgable about wifi cards.

What is the exact model and make of your card?

 

[JOHNGALT99]

i am using fedora core 1 and the make and model is

SENAO/ EnGenius NL-2611 (ext ant, PRISM 2.5) PC card

200mW High Power 802.11b Wireless LAN PC Card with External Antenna Jack.

it uses the prism 2.5 chipset

thanks for the help

maybe i should upgrade to fedora core 2?

 

[drag]

Well you'd want to move to Fedora Core2 eventually, but probably not just because of this.

According to here you use drivers from the Linux-wlan project.

The prism2.5 and prism3 cards are similar to the Prism2 cards and are among the most common b cards.

here is a listing of various cards They have your brand but not your specific modle...

Have you got Yum set up? If not, you should look into it, it makes keeping up to date and installing software easy.

Find a rpm or something that has the linux-wlan-ng drivers for your setup. Do a search in google or if you have yum/apt setup try to see if you can find it that way.

here is a website that has RPM's for Fedora Core1.
Don't know how good they are. he has directions here

Then once you get that installed, while making sure that you have the correct version for your kernel, then you ought to be able to configure it thru your normal gui configuration stuff.

Other then that I don't know. I've never used a Prism2.5 card before, but maybe check out the forums for Fedora for specific advice if this isn't to helpfull.


edit:

Also check out the dmesg command. This shows the latest comments to come from the kernel itself, so that if you load a module or whatnot it should leave a comment. It's usefull for troubleshooting something going wrong.