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On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Christof Lange
> ===========================
>
> Hi list,
>
> there are people who think they really need a fast connection to the
> internet and are ready to pay quite unreasonable money for it. There
> are others who prefer to use wireless technology that has become
> quite usual in Prague, now. A friend of mine borrrowed me a
>
>    Avaya Wireless PC Card ETS (Silver)
>    Lucent Technologies PCE24E-H-ET
>
> that probably can access the internet from Windows98. Will there be
> a way to do the same with BasicLinux 3.5? Or with 2.4 kernels and
> BL 2? Unfortunately I have no experience with PCMCIA cards, yet.
> There seems to be enough information on the web, but I do not
> understand, what I have to look for.
>
> Thanks,
> Christof

I set up my orinoco_cs Linksys WPC 11 card as follows:

Apparently my card worked in a 100MHz Toshiba laptop, but not in a 266MHz 
Toshiba, and it worked with 2.4.31 but segfaulted with 2.2.26.  If you 
have problems try a newer kernel than 2.2.26.

Get the card's manfid with cardctl (or cardmgr -o I think will work).

For my Linksys WPC11 ver 3 I have (see in my config file:
http://keesan.freeshell.org/html/bl/config.pcmcia.bl)

/etc/pcmcia/config:

device "orinoco_cs"
class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"

card "Linksys WPC11 ver 3"
manfid 0x0274, 0x1613
bind "orinoco_cs"

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The config file for pcmcia in pcmcia.tgz may have info on your card 
already.  Or search on PCMCIA Card Configuration Database.

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I searched on your Avaya card and 'config' and got a Czech site.
http://usenet.jyxo.cz/cz.comp.linux/0206/avaya-wireless-high-beep-low-beep-vyresemo.html

(should that be vyreseno not vyresemo?)

They suggest for this card:

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

card "Avaya Wireless PC Card"
 version "Avaya Communication", "Avaya Wireless PC Card", "Version 01.01"
 manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
 bind "wvlan_cs"

Add these lines to config, then type /etc/pcmcia/start


Sindi