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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Jeffrey Valcher wrote:
> > Can BL3 support the Orinoco Gold Classic wireless card (Hermes I)?
>
> Not immediately.  The BL3 kernel does not contain wireless
> capability (it was left out to keep the kernel small).
> You can replace the BL3 kernel (zimage) with the bare.i
> kernel (bzimage) from Slackware 7.1.  It has wireless
> capability.  You will also need a module (driver) for
> the Orinoco.  I'm not sure which one it needs.  A bit
> of googling might tell you.

Since someone recently gave us a wireless card and a neighbor offered to 
share his DSL line, we are also interested in the answer to this one so I 
googled Orinoco Gold and found it takes wvlan_cs or possibly a couple of 
newer modules.

A very detailed instruction for installing a wireless network card 
(wvlan_cs being their example) for Debian:
http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/wireless.html

There is a manpage for wvlan_cs

And a page specifically about Orinoco wireless:
http://www.hpl.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html

And many other things under Orinoco wireless and wvlan_cs

Summary of the Debian page - add to /pcmcia/config

device "wvlan_cs"
  class "network" module "wvlan_cs"

Card "             "
  version " ",  " "
  bind "wvlan_cs"

For the part to fill into the " " use cardctl ident
(Cardmgr may also work - I forget how but I used that for another card. 
It comes with BL3).

cardctl is in pcmcia.tgz along with lots of modules - I untarred the file 
(tar -zxvf) and picked out just cardmgr, cardctl, and the needed modules 
(also on the SW71 CD under /modules/2.2.16/pcmcia.  Put into 
/lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia

If the module you need is not available for SW7.1, would it be possible to 
use a later kernel and module?  (And matching modules for everything else, 
of course).  Put them in /lib/modules/2.?.?/misc and pcmcia
(where 2.?.? should be changed to the kernel number).  I may some day want 
to try this for USB if I get it working elsewhere.

Sindi