WLAN EMERGENCY!!!!

[Rick Stevens]

Jim Pelton wrote (reformatted for bottom posting):
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:08, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> 
>>Javier Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>>I desperately need a wlan adapter that will work in my Laptop. I have
>>>Fedora Core 1 install, and it seems to be better with wlan, but I have
>>>still found a card that it's relatively easy to install. I have tried
>>>Linksys Instant Wireless ver.3, and Netgear MA401. Netgear just
>>>doesn't do a damn thing for me.
>>
>>The MA401 was recognized by Anaconda, so I cannot see, which problem you
>>might have there. Just worked out of the box, so to speak.
>>
>>You need to modprobe the orinoco_cs and hermes modules for it to work -
>>if your PCMCIA stuff is working.
>>
>>Do you get any errors when you do that?
>>
>>Ralph

> Javier,
> I have struggled a little with WLAN cards in my Powerbook (yes yes I
> know diff, distro, but same idea). I found that many cards have
> different chipsets, but are packaged under the same model (but with
> different versions). It's important that you get a card with the Orinoco
> PrismII chipset, because it's best supported under linux. There are
> other drivers, for other chipsets, but it's hard (at least for a newbie
> like I!) to compile them properly. So I would continue with the Linksys
> v. 3 card. It's the one I use and it's great!
> 	
> 	Now, check your /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file. it's should read:
> PCMCIA=yes
> PCIC=yenta_socket
> PCIC_OPTS=-f (i think!)
> CORE_OPTS=
> 	When you have changed this file, try restarting pcmcia services with
> your card inserted. Now cardmgr should load and you should get two
> similar beeps suggesting that cardmgr has recongnized the card as one
> which has a driver installed on your system. (I think RH systems have
> the orinoco_cs driver (for prismII) installed somewhere as default). 
> 	Now you can run redhat-network-config and add the wireless device as
> eth1 or whatever is appropriate. 

One should also examine the ndiswrapper stuff at
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net.  It allows you to use WXP/2K/2K3
drivers (the .inf and .sys files) under a wrapper driver.  I use it
for my Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g wireless on my Fujitsu laptop.
Works fine.
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