Wireless PCMCIA nic for Red Hat 9 ?

[Aaron Bennett]

Hello --

I'm looking to buy a wireless card for a Dell laptop running Red Hat 9.  
I've tried a Cisco Aironet 350, and it won't work.  (by "work" I mean my 
users' defination of work, not mine.  It needs to plug in and be 
configurable 100% by redhat-config-network-gui.)

Does anyone have a solid suggestion?  I know that cards based on the 
orinoco chipset *should* work, as should intersil cards.  What I need is 
a brand/model.  I'm going nuts looking through resellers' sites trying 
to figure out what card is based on what chipset.  It's maddening, in 
fact.

Thanks,

Aaron

[Scott Seagroves]

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 13:25, Aaron Bennett wrote:
> Does anyone have a solid suggestion?  I know that cards based on the 
> orinoco chipset *should* work, as should intersil cards.  What I need is 
> a brand/model.  I'm going nuts looking through resellers' sites trying 
> to figure out what card is based on what chipset.  It's maddening, in 
> fact.

I use a Dell Truemobile 1150, which is supposedly (according to the kind
folks at yahoo group linux-dell-laptops) a rebranded Orinoco Gold card. 
It works like a charm on RH9, automatically coming up with the
orinoco/orinoco_cs drivers.

You can get this card pretty cheap, try froogle.google.com.  BUT BEWARE
of the newer Truemobile 1180, which uses one of those
not-yet-supported-under-linux Broadcom chipsets.

hope that helps,
Scott Seagroves

[Kreg Steppe]

I use a true mobile also... works perfect.

I have also used Lucents Ornioco. It too worked which is basically the 
same card.

Cheers,
Kreg Steppe

Scott Seagroves wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 13:25, Aaron Bennett wrote:
> > Does anyone have a solid suggestion?  I know that cards based on the 
> > orinoco chipset *should* work, as should intersil cards.  What I need is 
> > a brand/model.  I'm going nuts looking through resellers' sites trying 
> > to figure out what card is based on what chipset.  It's maddening, in 
> > fact.
>
> I use a Dell Truemobile 1150, which is supposedly (according to the kind
> folks at yahoo group linux-dell-laptops) a rebranded Orinoco Gold card. 
> It works like a charm on RH9, automatically coming up with the
> orinoco/orinoco_cs drivers.
>
> You can get this card pretty cheap, try froogle.google.com.  BUT BEWARE
> of the newer Truemobile 1180, which uses one of those
> not-yet-supported-under-linux Broadcom chipsets.
>
> hope that helps,
> Scott Seagroves
>
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[Peter Boy]

Am Mon, 2003-08-11 um 22.25 schrieb Aaron Bennett:
> I'm looking to buy a wireless card for a Dell laptop running Red Hat 9.  
> I've tried a Cisco Aironet 350, and it won't work.  (by "work" I mean my 
> users' defination of work, not mine.  It needs to plug in and be 
> configurable 100% by redhat-config-network-gui.)

I use a Compaq WL 110 (orinoco_cs) with my IBM Thinkpad. It is
automatically recognized by RH 9.0 and configured as any other standard
NIC. If I plug it in, it is automatically activated. Very nice, no probs
at all.

Peter

[Aaron Bennett]

Thank you all for your answers.  I'm going to use the 1150, as I've had 
success with it before.

- Aaron

Aaron Bennett wrote:
> Hello --
>
> I'm looking to buy a wireless card for a Dell laptop running Red Hat 
> 9.  I've tried a Cisco Aironet 350, and it won't work.  (by "work" I 
> mean my users' defination of work, not mine.  It needs to plug in and 
> be configurable 100% by redhat-config-network-gui.)
>
> Does anyone have a solid suggestion?  I know that cards based on the 
> orinoco chipset *should* work, as should intersil cards.  What I need 
> is a brand/model.  I'm going nuts looking through resellers' sites 
> trying to figure out what card is based on what chipset.  It's 
> maddening, in fact.
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron