1st of all i m APPSDBA,i have a network configuration problem @ my work station .
i have a one m/c in that i install XP and Linux AS4 means dual boot.there we r using wireless local area network(using Netgear).
issue : using XP i can communicate with other machines and i can access the internet also. while i boot into Linux i cant communicate !
it just showing 127.0.0.1 and some stuff(that i dont know wat those 4 or 5 lines).
really i shock while i saw it. network saying okey but its not showing IP.
for XP its fine then wat happen to my Linux(i m not etting wats the prob).
i m not sure wat i m giving the info about netgear but i m giving the thing wat was on bill(while purchase it).
getconfig.pl: Evaluated 23 rules with 0 errors.
getconfig.pl: Weight of result is 0.
hope this info is enough to analyze this prob and to give the solution.
okey i will try to install ndiswrapper soon, if works fine okey, if not will get back to u !
Your lspci output shows a lot of "Unknown device" tags, too many for my liking. This could be from either using very new hardware, or very old Linux. Since you are running a 2.6.9-5.ELsmp kernel, I would suspect that this would be part of the problem.
You could also download the kernel sources and compile them yourself. If you are trying to learn about Linux, this is a good lesson to learn.
i m going to upgarade my kernel could u plz tell me the next steps to bring my linux box in to wireless LAN.
i download latest kernel version 4m the link.
i means some 4 lines are coming.
i think its(kernel version which i downloaded) not sutable for this AS4could u sujest me the Right steps for me , and also give me the next steps to bring this box in to WLAN.
It seems that you may not be able to upgrade to a newer kernel, as you have found. I looked through the kernels available from the CentOSPlus repository, and the newest one is 2.6.9-67. This most likely is not new enough.
Mu recommendation is to install a newer version of Linux. If you need to use Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS 5 is a clone of RHEL 5. Even then wireless may not work, because RHEL is meant to be for servers, and severs usually don't need wireless. So you would then need to enable the CentOSPlus repository, and upgrade the kernel with a plus kernel.
If you don't need RHEL, you could use Red Hat Fedora Linux 9. It is similar to RHEL, but a newer version can be downloaded for free. It also has a much more enhanced kernel, with almost everything enabled in it as modules. Wireless is much easier to get running on this.
If you must use the version that you have installed, there is one other possibility. You can do as deltaflyer suggested, use NDISwrapper. It will use the WindowsXP driver to enable the wireless card in Linux. It can be installed using the ATrpms repository that I linked to in my previous post. Add it to the list of repositories that are currently enabled in your distro. I don't know what AS4 uses, but it may be YUM, Use the installation instructions found HERE. Replace the Fedora Core name with your distro's name.
I modified it for you, see if it will work.
I see that the ATrpms repository doesn't have NDISwrapper for your kernel version, so you may still run into problems.