Hardware
Dell Latitude C600 laptop (Windows 2000, Fedora Core 4)
Belkin F5D6231-4 802.11b Router
Belkin F5D6020 802.11b Notebook Card
Getting it Working
Indentification
The Belkin card was a version 3 card, which really is based on the
Realtek chipset. The cardctl program is not very helpful; it
fails to identify the card. I happened to know what the card was based
on my
earlier work with RedHat Linux
9.
Obtain the Driver
The Linux driver for the 2.6 kernel is available from the RealTek
website (
http://www.realtek.com.tw),
however I was not able to get to compile and link cleanly with Fedora
Core 4. A better driver is available from the "rtl8180-sa2400
Linux kernel driver" project at Sourceforge (
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/).
One change needs to be made to the rtl8180_core.c file:
*** r8180_core.c.orig
2005-04-12 08:39:56.000000000 -0400
--- r8180_core.c
2006-03-09 19:32:59.000000000
-0500
***************
*** 3630,3636 ****
if (!(pmem_flags & IORESOURCE_MEM)) {
DMESG("%s: region #1 not a MMIO resource, aborting",
!
pdev->slot_name);
goto fail;
}
--- 3630,3636 ----
if (!(pmem_flags & IORESOURCE_MEM)) {
DMESG("%s: region #1 not a MMIO resource, aborting",
!
pci_name(pdev));
goto fail;
}
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Configuration Files
You could choose to populate
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opt with
the networks you frequently use.
Starting the Driver
I created a script which
configures the network:
#!/bin/sh
cd /root/rtl8180-0.21
./module_load
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid YOUR_ESSID
dhclient wlan0
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Now What?
So it works, and that is great! I have not seen any problems with this
configuration.