wireless help newbie

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Kevin Old wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 13:17, George Bennett wrote:

> > I have a dell inspiron running fedora core 1 with kernel
> > 2.4.22-1.2115.
....
> > I have a wireless router and desperately am trying to get my
> > wireless pcmcia adapter to work without luck.  The adapter is
> > a netgear ma401.
....
> What have you tried?  Is Fedora seeing your pcmcia card?  If so, is your
> question more about getting connected to your wireless router?

Check out this site:
	http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~chhabra/netgearwireless.html

With any card there is the common issue that the driver may
reflect the chip set and not the brand name on the card.  
Hardware browsing tools should get you chip ID's.

There is the obvious pile of pcmcia software to install:
	$ apropos pcmcia 
should return a long list of stuff.

Short term unlock the router so connections are as simple as
possible.  Then turn on security hooks.  Note that MAC addresses
are easy to set by a driver so more than MAC access control will
be needed.

On a fedora system in /etc/pcmcia/config I see:

	card "Netgear MA401RA Wireless Adapter"
	  version "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card"
	  bind "orinoco_cs"
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