Thanks Marcus. I looked at the madwifi page at sourceforge but the
drivers seem to be for pci and mini pci cards rather than regular
notebook pcmcia cards.
Woody seems to recognize my card, but I think I must have entered the
wrong information either in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts or in /etc/
network/interfaces
I've tried a bunch of permutations but haven't been able to get the card
to work.
Tim
Marcus Crafter wrote:
Hi Tim,
Ah.. yes, I get this too. Looks like they don't yet have a home page up.
Try http://sourceforge.net/madwifi
Cheers,
Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Tim Folger wrote:
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for the reply. I installed the hermes driver on the advice of
someone on the debian laptop users list who also has an orinoco gold
card. I went to the madwifi.sourceforge.net site but didn't see any
drivers listed--only a parent directory. When I click on the parent
directory the same page opens up, with just the parent directory on it.
Tim
Marcus Crafter wrote:
Hi Tim,
Are you sure the card is based on the Hermes chipset and not the Atheros
chipset?
I have a Gold card with my machine (miniPCI though), and I bought it
specifically because there were GPL drivers available at
madwifi.sourceforge.net. Maybe those ones are the drivers you need?
Hope that helps?
Cheers,
Marcus
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 05:45, Tim Folger wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to Linux, but somehow managed to install Debian Woody on a
Fujitsu laptop. I installed the 2.4.18 kernel, configured pcmcia
support, and installed the orinoco and hermes drivers during the
"configure device driver module stage of the installation." After
installing the base system and rebooting I installed synaptic, KDE, and
wireless tools. But I haven't been able to get my orinoco gold card to
work. I've edited the wireless options file in /etc/pcmcia, and my
wireless card beeps twice during startup, and its green lights flicker,
but don't stay on. When I run "iwconfig eth1" in a console it says no
essid is specified, even though I have set the essid, encryption key,
and a few other settings in wirelessopts. What am I missing? If I can
get this to work I'll be free of Windows!
Tim
