Wireless on Samsung notebook

Anyone knows what options are available in getting wireless working on a
Samsung X05 XTM 1600 notebook?

Only information I have about the built-in wireless card is that its a WLAN
802.11 b and 802.11 g.

I have Knoppix 2.78 installed on one partition of the drive, and another
partition has XP, where the wlan works out of the box.

The Linux kernel is 2.4.27. I think there's no wlan drivers built-in that.

I have something called "Wavelan configuration" in the KDE menu, which if
run returns "No wireless network card found".

I also have "ndiswrapper configuration" in the KDE menu. As I understand
this is used if a windows based driver of some kind is needed.

Any ideas/tips would be much appreciated!

michael wrote:

> Anyone knows what options are available in getting wireless working on a
> Samsung X05 XTM 1600 notebook?
>
> Only information I have about the built-in wireless card is that its a
> WLAN 802.11 b and 802.11 g.
>
> I have Knoppix 2.78 installed on one partition of the drive, and another
> partition has XP, where the wlan works out of the box.
>
> The Linux kernel is 2.4.27. I think there's no wlan drivers built-in that.
>
> I have something called "Wavelan configuration" in the KDE menu, which if
> run returns "No wireless network card found".
>
> I also have "ndiswrapper configuration" in the KDE menu. As I understand
> this is used if a windows based driver of some kind is needed.
>
> Any ideas/tips would be much appreciated!

Using the Knoppix partition, start a command line and issue:-

lspci -v

In the output that comes out look for something which mentions wireless
or network, and if it says Atheros (the P28 from Samsung uses Atheros)
then you need the madwifi driver which works a treat.

If it says Intel 2200 then again you are in luck, use the ipw2200 driver,
and for the Prism 54 chips use the prism54 driver which is now shipped
as a standard part of the kernel.

If it is Broadcom chip, give up.

There are others, and there are some other drivers, but you would be
best to post the relevant bits of the lspci output here.

David

> best to post the relevant bits of the lspci output here.

Thanks for all the info and lspci tip. The output below shows me the right
kind of card, so I shall try and figure how to get the ipw2200 driver
working next.

0000:02:07.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2731
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at e0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

I find I can also boot kernel 2.6.9 and that I have several existing files
relating to ipw2100, which may be sufficient:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201138 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100-1.2-i.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194770 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100-1.2-p.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209190 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100-1.2.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11880 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100.fw.LICENSE

Or are these files obsolete in relation to the "Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless
2200BG" hardware? Yet if I try run the Wavelan/KDE configuration I get no
wireless network card found.
I read much of the http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net site but unfortunately
its pretty complex for intermediate users.
Are there any easier ways to get this driver running.....

michael wrote:

> I find I can also boot kernel 2.6.9 and that I have several existing files
> relating to ipw2100, which may be sufficient:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201138 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100-1.2-i.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194770 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100-1.2-p.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209190 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100-1.2.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11880 Aug 10 2004 ipw2100.fw.LICENSE
>
> Or are these files obsolete in relation to the "Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless
> 2200BG" hardware? Yet if I try run the Wavelan/KDE configuration I get no
> wireless network card found.
> I read much of the http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net site but unfortunately
> its pretty complex for intermediate users.
> Are there any easier ways to get this driver running.....

I think that the ipw2100 was b only, you need the ip2200. I would look
to see if your distribution supports it - Debian certainly does and it is
packages as ipw2200-source

David

> packages as ipw2200-source

There are no files on Knoppix 2.78 kernel 2.6.9 relating to ipw2200. I'll
try install the ipw2200 following your advise. Thanks again.

This is as far as my install gets:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/ipw2200-1.0.0
MODVERDIR=/tmp/ipw2200-1.0.0 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.9/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2

According to the documentation, my kernel version 2.6.9 should be Ok.
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/INSTALL

Does anyone know how to make this install work on Knoppix?