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On 10 Sep 07 at 8:29, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>It appears from the
>above that you may need the hermes and orinco modules too.  
>I suggest you
>experiment.  
>
>Cheers,
>Steven

Hi Steven & Sindi, 

thank you for your quick answers regarding the wifi card. 
I started experimenting and it seems to work. Sindi's 
way leads to a high-beep-low-beep (probably bad), Steven's
way to a high-beep (good). 

Before I continue, however I would like to understand what the 
following lines in the configuration database /etc/pcmcia/config
mean: 

-----------
device "pcnet_cs"
  class "network" module "misc/8390", "pcnet_cs"
card "Network Card"
  function network_adapter
  bind "pcnet_cs"
------------

Besides the Avaya card in the PCMCIA slot, my laptop has another 
built-in nework, that I have never tried, yet. Will this card 
perhaps get installed automatically and interfere to my wifi-
experiments? 

I tried to comment out the above lines in /etc/pcmcia/config. 
Then Sindi's way ceased to work completely (no beep), whereas 
Steven's way still seems still to work. 

So for now I leave the above lines in the file, below I added: 

------
device "orinoco_cs"
  class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
card "Avaya World Card"
version "Avaya Communication", "Avaya Wireless PC Card"
  bind "orinoco_cs"
---------

There is huge output from cardmgr. What will be the next step 
in order to go online with the wifi card? 

Regards, 
Christof Lange

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