Christian Campbell wrote:
Hello all. After a frustrating weekend trying to get my Orinoco Gold
pcmcia wireless card to load, I give up, and turn to you. I know
little about getting this card to work, but here is what I *do* know...
-ifconfig doesn't show a wlan0 interface
-dmesg shows it sees a card inserted (PC Card bus but nothing more)
-iwconfig doesn't have any interfaces showing wireless extensions
-a search of the file system shows the existence of orinoco.ko
orinoco_cs.ko and hermes.ko
-modprobe orinoco, modprobe orinoco_cs, and modprobe hermes doesn't
seem to make a difference.
-I assume I shouldn't need to compile any drivers as they seem to
already be on the system (see above)
Any walk-thru or advice would be appreciated.
Regards,
Christian
Christian Campbell
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Bruegger's Enterprises Inc.
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Do a /sbin/lsmod and see if you can see a 'orinoco_cs' driver.
Post /sbin/pccardctl ident
If you don't have the 'pccardctl' command, install the pcmciautils package.
Do you have a 80211 a/b or g type card? The 'a/b' card is what I use,
not sure how a 'g' card works
This is most unusal, because the Orinoco Gold card has worked
automattically in Fedora, I have three of them and
they are auto detected, no problems.
Jim
