[NBLUG/talk] my laptop & wireless ethernet

[Micxz (lovedialup.com)]

Can you post wgat the driver for orinoco file name is? e.g. "prism2._cs"
My card supposedly has a prism chipset too but I'm unable to use the
prism2 driven on my system for some reason; Please post the driver file
name?

Micxz

augie wrote:
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> Rob Orsini wrote:
> > My first question: Has anyone had luck with wireless PCMCIA cards and
> > linux?
> 
> i know you solved this already, but just for further edification:
> 
> the way i got my PCMCIA wi-fi card to work with mandrake 9.1 was to
> install without the card in, then put the card in and run the 'Mandrake
> Control Center' tool, and navigate the the hardware section, from there
> the card should be recognized and you can configure it. configuring it
> should prompt you to install the wireless-tools package which includes
> iwconfig among others.
> 
> even though my card has a prism2 chipset, the mandrake tool uses the
> orinoco module, which works fine except if you want to run kismet, but
> more on that later.
> 
> augie.
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