Hi All,

I am new to linux world. I have RedHat 8.0 on my laptop and now want to
enable wireless network on it. I have MSI CB54G2 wireless card but not
sure how to install it on linux and further how to configure it.

Any help is appriciated.

Thanks much in advance,
Bhushan.

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bhushan.kalse@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am new to linux world. I have RedHat 8.0 on my laptop and now want
> to enable wireless network on it. I have MSI CB54G2 wireless card but
> not sure how to install it on linux and further how to configure it.
>
> Any help is appriciated.

Most wireless drivers for Linux are now 2.6 kernel based, upgrading
RHL8.0 to a 2.6 kernel is to much work as compared to upgrading to a
current version of Linux with a 2.6 kernel as the base.

With that said you can try visiting; http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/


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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:09:44 -0700, bhushan.kalse wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am new to linux world. I have RedHat 8.0 on my laptop and now want to
> enable wireless network on it. I have MSI CB54G2 wireless card but not
> sure how to install it on linux and further how to configure it.
>
> Any help is appriciated.
>
> Thanks much in advance,
> Bhushan.

First off Redhat 8 is so old that it has no wireless support. You need to
switch your system to Fedora Core 4. Do a clean install of FC4, don't try
to do an upgrade from RH8, RH8 is to old for an upgrade to work reliably.

If there is native support for your wireless card FC4 will probably
recognize it during the install and allow you to set it up then. However
there is a very good chance that there is no native Linux support for your
card, in that case you'll have to install Ndiswrapper and use the XP
driver. Get Ndiswrapper here,

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

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