[NBLUG/talk] Knoppix - Toshiba Satellite - Proxima wireless

[Todd Cary]

Kyle -

This is my first venture into the wireless realm of Linux, so any 
suggestions are welcomed.

Upon bring up Knoppix 3.7, I ran "lsmod" and did not see any reference 
to the Orinoco (it is the classic Gold).  I then tried the "modprobe 
orinoco_cs" and received that it could not insert the mod.  Is this due 
to my old Toshiba Satellite (450 MHz Win 98 notebook that runs Win 2K).  
I checked the bios and it is on auto-detect for the PCMCIA (I tried 
theothers in Win 2K and they did not work - just the Auto works).

Thank you for the help....

Todd

Kyle Rankin wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:05:57AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I replaced my Linksys wireless card (that I could not get to work with 
>>Linux) with a Proxima Orinoco Gold (8460-05).  The new card works like a 
>>champ with Windows (Win 2K), but I have not been able to get it to work 
>>with Knoppix 3.7 on my Toshiba.  Granted, my Toshiba is a little old, 
>>but the card dows work flawlessly.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>Todd
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>That's really odd, Orinoco's generally work out of the box (although I've
>heard rumors that there is a new model out there that uses a different
>chipset). Usually they load the hermes and orinoco_cs modules (which
>Knoppix not only has, but has patched modules to allow things like monitor
>mode for kismet).
>
>Do you boot Knoppix with the card inserted? If not try that first.
>Otherwise, check to make sure the hermes and orinoco_cs modules are loaded
>when the card is inserted with the "lsmod" command. If they don't show up,
>type: 
>
>   modprobe orinoco_cs 
>
>to load the module manually. Then you should be able to use the standard
>iwconfig commands to get the card up and functioning. All of this, of
>course, is contingent on this being a "classic" orinoco gold with the
>hermes chipset.
>
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