Smc 2802W PCI wireless network card

Hello,


I need some help, for the past 2 days I have been trying to get a
smc2802w wireless pci card to work in suse pro8.2. I have printed out
documentation on iwconfig,pcmcia and whole host of other technical
data. However, I still cannot get the card to load.


I thought I had it, because I used the orinoco_cs driver and selected
pcmcia in Yast network devices. Although when booting lilo showed eth0
done, but in the /var/log it stated that it could not load a module.
The module orinoco_cs was selected.

If i run ifconfig -a ..it does not show any card available
if I run iwconfig eth0..it states no extensions loaded. I have also
done a modprobe orinoco and it loaded the module, yet I still cannot
see the card loaded anywhere.

When doing a dmesg, it shows harris semiconductor for the card and it
also shows up in harddrake..although it is listed as a ethernet device
and when setting up through yast networking, it will state SMC on
eth0, but when configuring for wireless it does not work.


anyway, any help in this would be appreciated. Right know the card
works in WinXP and this is how I am able to get to post this thread.
Please help, can't take much more of the Windows..I might jump out of
it soon....:-)



Thanks
disciple1964

Timo Voipio <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> I think you encountered an OOL-error (Out Of Luck). 2802W is a Prism
> GT card, which neither the kernel drivers nor the linux-wlan-ng
> support, IIRC.

See <http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/>. Their driver claims
to support Prism GT (aka. ISL3880).

No idea how well it works.

- Pat

Thanks I will give this a try

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Timo Voipio <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>
>>I think you encountered an OOL-error (Out Of Luck). 2802W is a Prism
>>GT card, which neither the kernel drivers nor the linux-wlan-ng
>>support, IIRC.
>
>
> See <http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/>. Their driver claims
> to support Prism GT (aka. ISL3880).
>
> No idea how well it works.
>
> - Pat

Thanks for your input

Timo Voipio wrote:

> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>> I thought I had it, because I used the orinoco_cs driver and selected
>> pcmcia in Yast network devices. Although when booting lilo showed eth0
>> done, but in the /var/log it stated that it could not load a module.
>> The module orinoco_cs was selected.
>
>
> I think you encountered an OOL-error (Out Of Luck). 2802W is a Prism GT
> card, which neither the kernel drivers nor the linux-wlan-ng support, IIRC.
>
> HTH, HAND,
>
> -Timo
>