[Leaplist] help with Zyxel wifi card.

[ray]

ray wrote:
> My laptop for some reason decided to shutdown on its own over the past 
> 12 hours or so.  When i booted back up none of my kernels will run my 
> wifi card.  IIRC i had it configured for 1 kernel the 2.6.9--34.EL and 
> im running Cent 4.4 currently on it.
>
> Also even with it running the way it was, i had to hack my 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local just to get it to work.  my question is HOW do i 
> find out the driver set of my card, how do i go about getting the 
> correct drivers for my laptop, and how do i install them.  i did it 
> once a long time back, but i have checked the leap archives and they 
> only go back to Dec 06, this was MUCH longer then that since i set up 
> this card.
> This is the card that leap posted about as having native linux drivers 
> from either compUSA or Best Buy.  can not remember were, but i want to 
> say best buy.
>
> the card is Zyxel ZyAIR G-102  with a FCC ID: SI5WCB210A if that helps 
> anyone figure out what i have and how to help me figure this out.
>
> many thanks.
>
just FYI, dmesg | tail reports can not apply power when i plug the card 
in.  so it may be a dead card.  i will try to get it to an other laptop 
and see if i can get it running under windows to see if the card is dead 
or not.  the PCMCIA slot is good as when i plug my USB 2.0 card it, it 
powers up and configures.

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Raymond L. Brunkow
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