{"id":766,"date":"2021-09-21T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?page_id=766"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:59:25","slug":"linksys-wpc11-linux-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/linksys-wpc11-linux-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Linksys WPC11 Linux setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Linksys card uses the\u00a0<b>Intersil chipset<\/b>.\u00a0 You can download the linux drivers from the\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-wlan.com\/linux-wlan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linux-wlan project Web site<\/a><\/b>. Make sure you download the\u00a0<b>11Mbps project<\/b>!\u00a0 Then follow the tip below. [Thanks to Ren Roderick for this tip!]<cite><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>The Linux-WLAN project is has Linux drivers for both the Prism and Prism2 based card on their Web site http:\/\/www.linux-wlan.com. I&#8217;ve been having good luck using this package with the Linksys WPC11 PCCards.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve successfully compiled and had them running under SuSE 6.x and Redhat 5.2 and 6.1. An addition to &#8216;wlan-ng.conf&#8217; file to include the Linksys id info, a restart of PCMCIA services, and they come up and play wonderfully.<\/p>\n<p>The addition to &#8216;wlan-ng.conf&#8217; consists of 3 lines:<\/p>\n<p>card &#8220;Instant Wireless Network PC CARD Version 01.02&#8221; manfid 0x0156, 0x0002<br \/>\nbind &#8220;prism2_cs&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note that the &#8216;manfid&#8217; values correspond exactly with the Intersil Prism2 Reference Design Card settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linksys card uses the\u00a0Intersil chipset.\u00a0 You can download the linux drivers from the\u00a0linux-wlan project Web site. Make sure you download the\u00a011Mbps project!\u00a0 Then follow the tip below.  The Linux-WLAN project is has Linux drivers for both the Prism and Prism2 based card on their Web site http:\/\/www.linux-wlan.com. I&#8217;ve been having good luck using this package with the Linksys WPC11 PCCards. I&#8217;ve successfully compiled and had them running under SuSE 6.x and Redhat 5.2 and 6.1. An addition to &#8216;wlan-ng.conf&#8217; file to include the Linksys id info, a restart of PCMCIA services, and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}