Re: [Sheflug] Wirless LAN card

[Iain Roberts <iain [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:11, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> Hi,
>     I've been asked to install a wireless card on to a linux computer
> (RH 8.0), the card is mounted on a PCI to PCMCIA bridge, and it seems
> to be dtected (through lspci). The card model is 3CRWE777A-E1, and I
> believe that it uses the orinoco_cs module. However, this module
> cannot be loaded (and neither can any of the other modules in
> /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/, for that matter).
>
>     I have looked around for an easy to undertand tutorial, but found
> none that deals with the first stage of the intallation (næmely,
> getting eth1 to show up!).
>
>     Can anyone shed any light? I am not too sure about what details
> might be relevant, but ask, and I'll try to be as "verbose" as
> possible :-)
> José

Hi,

I can't help with that specific card, but I can suggest an alternative. I 
recently picked up an Airway PCMCIA card on eBay for £15 (well, £20 including 
delivery).  Put it in my laptop (running Mandrake 9.1) and it picked it up as 
eth1 during the boot.

I went into Drak to configure the card.  It prompted me to put a CD in, 
installed a couple of packages and everything worked.  All 
automatic/graphical - probably easier than Windows.

The only slightly trickier bit was getting the card to use encrypted mode on 
boot, where I did have to find the right text file and edit it, putting the 
key in.  Having done that, it works perfectly (also picked up my Linksys 
wireless router for £75 on eBay and that seems to be happy too).

Iain.


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