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. 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
