Install driver for ADM8211 WLAN card under RedHat 7.1

[Ka Yiu Man]

Hi,

I've RedHat Linux 7.1 installed on my computer and I'm trying to install a driver for my ADM8211 WLAN card. I've the ELF file "8211.o" and I'm sure that it's the driver for my WLAN card. The following is what I tried:

1. Did "insmod -f 8211.o". The LKM was loaded with warning saying that it might "taint" the kernel since it was compiled for kernel 2.4.20 while my kernel is 2.4.20-18.

2. Added line "alias eth0 8211.o" in the /etc/modules.conf file.

3. Created a file "ifcfg-eth1" in the folder /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts as:

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

4. Did "service network restart", but then it failed with the following error:

Code: c6 86 92 54 00 00 01 53 53 68 00 00 00 04 68 c4 ea 05 c4 ff
<0> Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
In interrupt handler - not sncing

I tried to find out if the system could detect my WLAN card on the PCI slot by "lspci -v" and the following information appeared:

00:14.0 Network controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 8201 (rev 11)
Subsystem: abocom Systems Inc: Unknown device ab60
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at ec00 [size = 256]
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=128k]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

So I assumed that the system could detect my WLAN card. Did I do something wrong? Any kind of help is appreciated! Thanks!