On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:07, Rick Bilonick wrote: > I tried to install FC2 months ago so I don't remember all the details > clearly. My memory was that the pcmcia slot did not work but I don't > think I knew enough at the time to try to restart it. (Now I realize I > should at least have tried to restart it.) Under RH9, the pcmcia slot is > activated first and then the network card is activated. Why would you > try to activate a pc-card network card before activating the pc-card > slot (if that is what FC2 was doing)? > That is what it was doing! > I looked at the D-Link DWL-G650 which Scott said used the prism54 > driver. The box I saw at Best Buy today mentioned something about > atheros. Does prism54 support the atheros chipset? > No you will need the madwifi drivers for an atheros chip set. As I mentioned before the vendors really make this difficult. You almost need to install a card and run lspci to see what the chip set is. You need to check the version numbers on the cards to find out what version card you have. > If I try to install FC3 on the laptop, it should install the pcmcia > driver and the prism 2 (orinoco) driver automatically, shouldn't it? (I > just installed FC3 on an older computer I had FC2 on and it installed > without any problems. I also have FC2 running on a new Athlon 64 system. > I just had the problem with the laptop.) > > Rick B. Hopefully that is what will happen. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx The world is no nursery. - Sigmund Freud
