about WiFi cards

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Denny Figuerres wrote:

> Hi all, I have been a user of RedHat retail packages for a *LONG* time . I
> still have CD packages for 5.xx redhat.
>
> In 8.xx I had no problem with a Microsoft mn-520 PCMCIA card, just had to
> edit a config file and it worked.
>
> With Fedora Core 1 and 2 it's broke!
>
  > Can anyone explain what has happened?
>
> Same laptop, same card, the only difference is a newer version of Linux.
>
> Do I have to go get the Linux-wlan-ng packages to deal with this?
>
> Is there some deep reason that a working driver was broke?
>
> Just trying to understand the problem before I start downloading stuff and
> spending time compiling and editing etc..

What driver was used with this card in RHL8? And what config files did
you edit?

I'm guessing it was orinoco_cs and this driver is present in FC1 and
FC2. I have a Lucent Silver card - which works with this driver on
both FC1 & FC2.

Satish