I took a day off from work today to do a little painting and to work some more on my Linux system. I have Slackware 9 installed on a 40GB drive and I want to make the box wireless. I had picked up a TrendNet TEW-223PI PCI card a while back for about $30 and downloaded what was purported to be the driver for it, an Atmel driver package. Alas, that is not the right driver for this card. A Google search turned up the right driver from the ADM site, which compiles into 8211.o, which modprobes very nicely and turns on the card just fine. (Here is the ADM8211 Linux driver.)
Update: where the heck did ADMTEK go? Here is a local copy I saved. It worked for me, your mileage may vary.
Still to do is to edit the scripts to run iwconfig to put in the encryption key and ifconfig and dhcp to get an IP address from the router, configure Samba so the other systems here can see it, and it should be ready for prime time. I figure about another two hours should do it.
The next iteration will be a fast mobo/CPU combo in a new ATX case, but that's down the road a bit.
This required a little research on the internet to get some tips on how to configure a wireless card under Linux, but the information is out there and the software/drivers are freely available. Life is good, Linux is free. (Fuck you, SCO.)
Posted on November 10, 2003 04:34 PM