CentOS - May 2008 - ASUS WL-100W PCMCIA Wireless NIC

Hi everyone,

Any chance I can get the card[1] in $subj to work under CentOS 5.1 ?
The only thing I get in dmesg when inserting/removing the card, are
messages from pccard:

--- dmesg ---
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
--- end ---

When inserting, no new network interface becomes available, so I assume
it doesn't recognize it. Any way I can get it to work? Tips, pointers
to relevant docs are all very appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance,
and have a great day everyone.

Cheers,
Alex

1.
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=12&l2=42&l3=135&model=1278&modelmenu=1

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Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:59 AM
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Subject: [CentOS] ASUS WL-100W PCMCIA Wireless NIC

Hi everyone,

Any chance I can get the card[1] in $subj to work under CentOS 5.1 ?
The only thing I get in dmesg when inserting/removing the card, are messages
from pccard:

--- dmesg ---
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
--- end ---

When inserting, no new network interface becomes available, so I assume it
doesn't recognize it. Any way I can get it to work? Tips, pointers to
relevant docs are all very appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance,
and have a great day everyone.

Cheers,
Alex

1.
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=12&l2=42&l3=135&model=1278&modelmenu=1
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http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1278&l1=12&l2=42&l3=135&
l4=0

This link says it is not supported in Linux. However you may still get it
working by manually specifying the driver for it. If you look at lastweeks
posts you will find a whole discussion on wireless for linux and where to
get generic drivers from sourceforge.net.

GoodLuck,

John
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Since it seems there are no Linux drivers for this card, your only hope
of getting this thing working is NDISwrapper.

Just had a look and it seems you are in luck!
Someone has gotten your card working in CentOS 5.1 (see entry 58):
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list_a/