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[Eric Womack <eric AT sourcemage.com>]

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Anyone using an 802.11b card with SMGL?  I have a Linksys WPC11 (orionco
(sp?) chipset) and I am having no luck so far.  The card is recognized,
but drivers are not loaded.

The card has been verified to work in Linux with a RedHat box, so it's not
a hardware issue.  I have found several HOWTO's for Redhat and Debian, but
none of them are entirely applying to SMGL.

Also, in the install log of pcmcia-cs there is no mention of the orionco
drivers being built, but according to the site docs they have been
included for the last several versions.

Ideas?

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From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
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I have no problems with 802.11b on my laptop. I'm using a Netgear MA401
which is also an orinoco. From what I understand, if PCMCIA support is
enabled in the kernel, then the pcmcia-cs package will NOT produce any
drivers, these need to be built by the kernel. This is how I've done it,
and things work fine. You may need to adjust the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
to set your ESSID, though "ANY" is the default and works fine for me on
a few different networks (all with different ESSID's).

The other option is to disable PCMCIA support in the kernel, and then
pcmcia-cs supposedly will produce drivers. I haven't tried this, but may
be preferred since the release cycle for pcmcia-cs is probably much faster
than stable kernel releases!

I recently discovered some patches for the orinoco driver which allow the
chipset to be placed in "monitor" mode, though the most recent seems to be
against pcmcia-cs-3.2.1. The page also includes links to various firmware
versions.

http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html

-casey



On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Eric Womack wrote:

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> Anyone using an 802.11b card with SMGL?  I have a Linksys WPC11 (orionco
> (sp?) chipset) and I am having no luck so far.  The card is recognized,
> but drivers are not loaded.
>
> The card has been verified to work in Linux with a RedHat box, so it's not
> a hardware issue.  I have found several HOWTO's for Redhat and Debian, but
> none of them are entirely applying to SMGL.
>
> Also, in the install log of pcmcia-cs there is no mention of the orionco
> drivers being built, but according to the site docs they have been
> included for the last several versions.
>
> Ideas?
>
> - --
> Eric Womack
> Grimoire Guru - KDE
> http://www.sourcemage.org