[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Sun Dec 10 02:35:26 MST 2006


On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 01:40:22PM -0700, David Braley wrote:
>After some prodding, I found both the wireless nic and video sharing the
>same interrupt number 16. I have read somewhere this is not necessarily

I also had a first thought that the video card and the network card were
sharing an IRQ or other resource.  On my laptop, "cat /proc/interrupts"
shows that IRQ 11 is used by my wireless, display, and also 4 USB ports,
ethernet, and audio...

Is this a PCMCIA wireless card?  If so, /etc/pcmcia/config.opts may help
out.  It's been a long time since I had such a problem, but I used to
always have to tweak it so that my PCMCIA cards didn't interfere with the
serial port in the laptop.

In general, I try to avoid any card that you have to build your own
drivers.  If you have a Mini-PCI slot in that laptop, and a built-in
antenna, I'd recommend an Intel Pro Wireless 2100 (b) or 2200 (g) card.
Dangerjim may even have one he's trying to get rid of.  Otherwise, have you
considered going to ebay and getting an Orinoco Silver card?  They're
pretty reliable.

Sean
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