Problems with Lucent Wavelan (Orinoco) card on laptop

[Timothy Murphy]

Mats Brorsson wrote:

> I have problems getting Fedora core 1 to activate my wireless LAN adapter.
> It's a Lucent Wavelan Silver, now known as Orinoco Silver, card. In bets
> case, nothing really happens, in most cases it hangs the system totally.
> My machine is a Packard Bell EasyNote M5 laptop.
> 
> I'm new to Linux and don't really know where to start looking for a
> solution.

I'm using an Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card at this moment with Fedora-1,
and it works perfectly with the standard orinoco_cs driver.
So in principle your card should work.

What does "cardctl ident" say?
It should tell you what the machine thinks the card is.

Also, does lsmod list orinoco_cs as one of the modules loaded?
If not you could try saying "modprobe orinoco_cs".

Also what do "ifconfig eth0" and "iwconfig eth0" say?

Finally, you could see what cardmgr entries there are in /var/log/messages
"grep cardmgr /var/log/messages".


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