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Search online for your card and linux.  Other people had problems with it 
determining the speed (10 or 100Mb/s) and had some solution.

You can teach me to use wireless tools.

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Ok, I downloaded the new kernel (bzimasmf.431). I'm not sure if it
> works with other stuff such as mice and sound cards as I've not tried
> it yet. BL3 booted up and looked in the right place this time. I also
> installed the new modules (modules-pcmcia-min-2431.tgz). I also
> installed   modules-pcmcia-wireless-431.tgz and modules-smf-431.tgz as
> well just to try it. I also modified /etc/pcmcia/config;
>
>
> device "orinoco_cs"
>  class "wireless"
>  module "hermes","orinoco","orinoco_cs"
>
> card "Netgear MA401"
>  manfid 0x000b, 0x7300
>  bind "orinoco_cs"
>
> and
>
> I also placed #'s in front of the device lines for pcnet_cs, REMing
> them out (REM=remark, basic prog. language command. Now
> I feel old :) !).

If you have only one wireless card you could have edited this section and 
replaced pcnet_cs with orinoco_cs.
> The cdrom seems to work much better with no need for me to do a few
> extra insmod's. But the good news is that the card might just be
> possibly working. I'm missing "wireless start eth0", however after
> running /etc/pcmcia/start.

You need to make an eth0 script, I think.  I do things manually.
> The card seems to be detected and the light comes on; I can even start
> to set some of the card's settings, e.g. ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.99;
> ifconfig eth0 essid, etc. But x.x (cue drumroll!) the light goes out
> on the card after a short time, and the system locks up !

Check online.

> Getting a little further!
>
> ljones
SIndi
>

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