about WiFi cards

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Denny Figuerres wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
>> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Satish Balay
>> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:48 AM
>> To: denny at figuerres.com; For users of Fedora Core releases
>> Subject: Re: about WiFi cards
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
> Correct:  the Orinoco_cs driver works with 8 by adding a few lines to the
> config file, the same change to the same file does not work with Fedora
> Core.
> I skipped RH9 so I don't know if it worked or was broke in 9.xx
>
> If you do a search the changed are posted several places... let me see...
> Here is one sample from a web page:
> Just now I succeeded in using Microsoft's Wireless N/W hardware with RedHat
> Linux 8. The hardware I used: 1. Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520
> 2. Microsoft Wireless Base Station MN-500
> I added the following to /etc/pcmcia/config :
>
> card "Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520 1.0.3"
> version "Microsoft", "Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520", "", "1.0.3"
> bind "orinoco_cs"
>
> I configured this device as eth1 and entered the following for Wireless
> configuration: 1. Mode: Ad-Hoc 2. SSID Specified : my_wireless_network_name
> Channel : 11 (I am using 11) Transmit : 11Mbps Key : my_encryption_key (for
> 128bit) This is working great for me.
> This is very useful for anyone using dual boot (I am using XP and RHL 8). My
> Windows XP uses the same hardware. Now RHL also uses the same hardware. If
> you have any questions regarding my setup please feel free to contact me at
>
> It works with 8, not with fedora, I have seen others say this when I was
> searching the only answer I found was to use the linux-wlan-ng packages.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this??
>

When you say it doesn't work - does the driver load and not work?
Perhaps you can try loading the driver manually - or make sure the
string matches 'cardctl ident'.

I just noticed this. Someone has orinoco_cs working with this card on 2.6 kernel
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=115862&highlight=module+prism2cs

There is another alternative driver to prism2 - hostap. There are
prebuilt drivers for FC1/FC2 - which you might want to try.

http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1019

Satish