**************************************************************************** PCI 802.11b Wireless Ethernet PC Card The RedHat7.3 Driver Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **************************************************************************** This document includes the following sections, I. Installation Guide II. Notice III. Errata I. Installation Guide Please follow the below to install your ADMtek ADM8211 wireless Adapter linux driver, 1. Power on, make sure you have the privilege of superuser, and login as root. 2. Download the "Install_RH73_101_0121.tar" into the "/usr/src" directory. 3. Run the following commands: #cd /usr/src #tar zxvf Install_RH73_101_0121.tar #cd Install #./install When run the "./install" command you will see the following screen. ADM8211 install begin.... Which type do you want to install ADMtek8211 WLAN driver(1/2)? 1. CardBus 2. mini PCI/PCI Please type 2 and click the enter key. #netconfig Please use the command to configure your network. #init 6 ----- reboot the system 4. After login the system, please run the following commands: #ifconfig Please check the WLAN adapter is eth0 or eth1 I assume the WLAN card is eth0 and the AP uses the channel 6, the AP ESSID is wireless. #iwconfig eth0 channel 6 #iwconfig eth0 essid wireless #cd /etc/rc3.d #./S10network restart After upper command, the PCI 802.11b wireless LAN card Linux driver will be installed. And the utilities including wireless-tool and kwifimanager will be also installed.The two utilities are popular tools that can help you configure the Wireless Lan. For further reading, please reference the Linux Wireless LAN Howto, located at . II. Notice After installing driver, you can setup your wireless lan card by iwconfig or kwifimanager. Kwifimanager is based on KDE 3. If you do not install KDE in RedHat, kwifimanager will not work. Iwconfing is a text command based tool that can configure your WLAN and it works well. In using iwconfig, everything will take effect after you set ESSID by typing like "iwconfig eth0 essid "ANY" ". Our default channel is auto scan. In normal condition, the driver can find the suitable channel to join. It you want to set channel by yourself, you can use iwconfig to set your channel. You also can set channel 0 to let driver auto scan the channel. III. Errata If you change data rate in kwifimanager and you use DHCP to get IP, the default gateway will disappear. This may be a bug of wireless extension or kwifiamaner. We test other wireless lan cards including Cisco 350 and Lucent Orinoco and the same conditions happened. You can run the following command to solve this problem, in RedHat 7.3 killall dhcpcd dhcpcd ethX with X being your network interface.