FC3 on Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 Laptop?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 00:35, Rick Bilonick wrote:

> The D-Link DWL-650 that I have is a Prism II card. It uses the orinoco 
> and orinoco_cs drivers. I could also use the wlan-ng or the hostap 
> drivers as far as I know but I've not tried them. (These drivers support 
> scanning.)
> 
> What concerns me is that the pcmcia slot did not appear to function at 
> all. I tried putting in a modem card and the wireless card and there was 
> no beep to indicate that a card had been inserted into the pcmcia slot. 
> I'm concerned that the pcmcia slot may not be supprted as it is in RH9.
> 
> To get your DWL-G650 to work in FC2, did you have to install manually 
> any drivers or is it all included in FC2?
> 
> Rick B.

I believe if your card uses the orinoco drivers then you should be set. 
I think those have been well supported for some time.

I had to manually install the prism54 drivers at that time.  I think
they are included in FC3 now although you may still have to install the
firmware for the card.  Note: not all versions of the DWL-G650 uses that
chip set.

After you put in the card use the lspci command to see if the system
sees the card.  Honestly I don't think my system beeps when I remove or
insert the card.  

Also check your log files, I think there should be some entries there
when you do insert the card.

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