Network Card SMC2635W (ADM8211 Chipset) Setup

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Ian Wallace wrote:

> I've searched the archives and tried numerous things however I don't
> seem to be able to get my wireless card to work with Fedora Core 1.
> 
> I've downloaded the driver source from ADMtek and compiled it using the
> kernel sources for the kernel I'm running (2188.nptl).  That works ok,
> and when I pop in the card I can see in /var/log/messages that it
> recognizes the card, and loads the 8211 driver.
> 
> Beyond that though ... nothing.  The power / activity light comes on, it
> tries to associated itself with eth0 however never receives an IP from
> the access point.
> 
> I've tried the wireless howto's and am a i bit confused if this should
> be showing up as wlan0 or eth0, or eth1.  Would someone be so kind as to
> point me the correct direction for information on how to configure
> this?  Or where else things might be going wrong?

Different drivers register the devices differently - orinoco_cs driver
(for my pcmcia card) registers as eth0/eth1/.. and my min-pci card
with madwifi driver registers itself as ath0

It appears your wireless card gets registered as eth0. You can verify
this with 'iwconfig'

You should be able to configure it using redhat-config-network.

Satish