WLAN EMERGENCY!!!!

[Jim Pelton]

Ah yes. Rick is right. There are a number of (emulators?) out there
which let you use win drivers under linux. Linuxant makes one called
driverloader which I have heard good things about. US 20 bucks! I
suppose this is the best way to get the new cards to work right now,
unless you are the master hacker --Jim

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:47, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jim Pelton wrote (reformatted for bottom posting):
> > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:08, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > 
> >>Javier Gonzalez wrote:
> >>
> >>>I desperately need a wlan adapter that will work in my Laptop. I have
> >>>Fedora Core 1 install, and it seems to be better with wlan, but I have
> >>>still found a card that it's relatively easy to install. I have tried
> >>>Linksys Instant Wireless ver.3, and Netgear MA401. Netgear just
> >>>doesn't do a damn thing for me.
> >>
> >>The MA401 was recognized by Anaconda, so I cannot see, which problem you
> >>might have there. Just worked out of the box, so to speak.
> >>
> >>You need to modprobe the orinoco_cs and hermes modules for it to work -
> >>if your PCMCIA stuff is working.
> >>
> >>Do you get any errors when you do that?
> >>
> >>Ralph
> 
> > Javier,
> > I have struggled a little with WLAN cards in my Powerbook (yes yes I
> > know diff, distro, but same idea). I found that many cards have
> > different chipsets, but are packaged under the same model (but with
> > different versions). It's important that you get a card with the Orinoco
> > PrismII chipset, because it's best supported under linux. There are
> > other drivers, for other chipsets, but it's hard (at least for a newbie
> > like I!) to compile them properly. So I would continue with the Linksys
> > v. 3 card. It's the one I use and it's great!
> > 	
> > 	Now, check your /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file. it's should read:
> > PCMCIA=yes
> > PCIC=yenta_socket
> > PCIC_OPTS=-f (i think!)
> > CORE_OPTS=
> > 	When you have changed this file, try restarting pcmcia services with
> > your card inserted. Now cardmgr should load and you should get two
> > similar beeps suggesting that cardmgr has recongnized the card as one
> > which has a driver installed on your system. (I think RH systems have
> > the orinoco_cs driver (for prismII) installed somewhere as default). 
> > 	Now you can run redhat-network-config and add the wireless device as
> > eth1 or whatever is appropriate. 
> 
> One should also examine the ndiswrapper stuff at
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net.  It allows you to use WXP/2K/2K3
> drivers (the .inf and .sys files) under a wrapper driver.  I use it
> for my Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g wireless on my Fujitsu laptop.
> Works fine.
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