sit0: no wireless extensions

[Ben Edwards]

Yes its a lingksys WPC54G

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:55:24 -0600, Kevin C. Smith <kevin at linuxsmith.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:39 +0000, Ben Edwards wrote:
> > Have a laptop with Ubuntu on it.  Have put a Linksys 802.11g pcmcia
> > card in and did:
> >
> > van at ubuntu:~ $ sudo iwconfig
> > Password:
> > lo        no wireless extensions.
> >
> > eth0      no wireless extensions.
> >
> > sit0      no wireless extensions.
> >
> > ivan at ubuntu:~ $
> >
> > Not sure how to add wierless extensions?
> >
> > Ben
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> 
> First, Determine the chipset it is based on. Then the modprobe the
> correct modules. Then see if you can bing up the interface.
> You will also need to set up wireless networking first to give it
> something to bring up. Do Computer->System Configuration->Networking.
> 
> Let us know the exact card (e.g. WPC54G, ..) and we can be more
> helpful with regard to the correct module(s) it will need.
> If is the WPC54G card I believe it is a Broadcom chipset and I do not
> have experience with those. You may need to look into ndiswrapper for
> drivers linux does not have support for yet.
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