I bought this wireless lan card when I used XP before. There is no website or company name displayed on the box. The only information that I have is only ‘Made in Taiwan‘ and ‘MAC ID; 000B6B00C4B8‘. That’s it.
Actually, you can use MAC ID to get information about the company that build the product.
After googling, I found a good website to find information about MAC address.
http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/
Just put your MAC ID and see the result. When I put my MAC ID, the information that I have is:
Vendor/Ethernet MAC Address Lookup and Search
MAC Address or Vendor to look for:
Search by vendor. For Example: “apple” or “allied”
Search by MAC Address. For Example: “00:13:A9″ or “00-80-C7″ or “000420”
To lookup MAC address “08:00:69:02:01:FC”:
enter first 6 characters “08:00:69″
or full MAC address “08:00:69:02:01:FC”.
Database last updated: Sep 9, 2007
Search results for “000b6b00c4b8“
MAC Address
Prefix Vendor
000B6B Wistron Neweb Corp.
Now, I know that the vendor is Wistron Neweb Corp. Then, I dig more information about WLAN from Wiston Neweb Corp. Finally, I got a good information mentioned that WLAN card bus is the same product like Realtek. We know that Realtek works very well in Ubuntu. Mean, that I can use this WLAN in Ubuntu.
How can it work with no driver for linux?
If we know that Realtek works in Linux, that’s a good start. If we don’t have the driver for linux then just use the windows one. You need a module named ndiswrapper to make it run.
There are 2 main files for ndiswrapper, ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9. So, you have to download both of it.
Step 1. Install ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
ndiswrapper-common is already the newest version.
Suggested packages:
ndiswrapper-source
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 32.1kB of archives.
After unpacking 123kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.38-1ubuntu1 [32.1kB]
Fetched 32.1kB in 1s (19.7kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package ndiswrapper-utils-1.9.
(Reading database … 154966 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (from …/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.38-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Setting up ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (1.38-1ubuntu1) …
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Step 2. Disable native (free) Prism54 drivers.
Ubuntu provides wireless driver also as default. You have to disable it, otherwise it will create a conflict with windows driver.
taufanlubis@PC:~$ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
……..
……..
# disable native (free) Prism54 drivers
blacklist prism54pci
blacklist prism54common
Step 3. Copy your windows driver to home directory.
The location of your driver will be depend on your WLAN card installer. Just browse your windows and search for the location.
For example, my WLAN windows drivers are located in:
C:\Program Files\IEEE 802.11b WLAN Cardbus Utility and Driver\XP_Driver
You will need 2 files from windows drivers.
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File setup information: NETR8180.inf
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File system: rtl8180.sys
Step 4. Install your windows driver in Ubuntu with Ndiswrapper.
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo ndiswrapper-1.9 -i netr8180.inf
installing netr8180 …
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Check ndiswrapper driver list
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ ndiswrapper -l
netr8180 : driver installed
Check Wireless network interface configuration
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Step 5. Edit /etc/network/interafaces, add:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
auto eth0
Step 6. Put your PCMCIA WLAN card in, and load ndiswrapper module
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
You will see, your card’s lamp will start blinking.
Step 7. Restart network
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Step 8. Configure Networking
Open System > Administration > Network, choose the available Hot Spot and set the ip to automatic configuration (DCHP).
Step 9. Check your network configuration status
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:36:9A:EB
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000
eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:36:9A:EB
inet addr:169.254.10.28 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
vbox0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:FF:EB:24:6D:F4
inet6 addr: fe80::2ff:ebff:fe24:6df4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:6 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:6B:00:C4:B8
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20b:6bff:fe00:c4b8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4956 (4.8 KB) TX bytes:9765 (9.5 KB)
Interrupt:5 Memory:dea1c000-dea1c100
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Step 10. Test connection
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ ping http://www.google.com
PING http://www.l.google.com (64.233.189.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from hk-in-f104.google.com (64.233.189.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=3054 ms
64 bytes from hk-in-f104.google.com (64.233.189.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=3276 ms
64 bytes from hk-in-f104.google.com (64.233.189.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=3484 ms
— http://www.l.google.com ping statistics —
7 packets transmitted, 3 received, 57% packet loss, time 5999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3054.540/3271.901/3484.766/175.674 ms, pipe 4
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Now, you are ready to access the internet.
Hi,
I am using openSuse11, how to install USB Modem.
For more information about my card (USB Modem)
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http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/reliance-netconnect-data-card-price-drop/
Hi
Your tutorial has helped me LOADS! Managed to get my Inprocomm WLAN PCMCIA card working in Ubuntu – one question though, how on earth did you learn all this about terminal? I would consider myseld advanced in the realm of windows and dos, but this is totally new to me!!!! Thanks again!
Why does this have to be the ONLY relibale source? Oh well, gj!
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