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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - IGNORE that man behind the keyboard! - > - - The Wizard of OS - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
