[ale] SMC 2635w Redhat 9.0 woes

Robert Coggins ALE at CogginsNet.com
Wed Sep 3 12:09:36 EDT 2003


Did you ever get your rebate back?
I sent mine in a while ago and still did not get it yet.

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] SMC 2635w Redhat 9.0 woes


> Look in the archives.  I've experienced this 3 weeks ago.
>
> #1) Build the driver from source.
> #2) insmod the driver
> #3) use pump to get an ip address.
>
> I did not waste the time integrating into pcmcia tools.  I found the
> card to be extremely slow and deprecated it to Winbloze service.
> I scp'ed some data with the Linksys wireless card and it took 2.5 minutes.
> The SMC card took 10+ minutes.  Worthless POS.  I bought the SMC only
because
> it was $9.99 after rebate at MicroCenter.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:43:04AM -0400, exo wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I have a SMC 2635w wireless pcmcia card.  Is there anyway to get it
> > working on Redhat 9.0.
> >
> > I did check google, I came across that it is admtek chipset.  So I go
> > their website, its adm 8211 and the drivers are for Redhat 7.3 and
Redhat
> > 8.0.   I tried to run on Redhat 9.0 but it won't install.
> >
> > Is there anyway to fix this, this is getting to be annoying problems.
> > Linux needs to get the driver issue taken care of (Just venting here)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > later,
> >
> > -e
> >
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