Hi Simon,
I've been running that exact Wavelan card with no problems under
Redhat 6.2, Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2. It requires some steps to install,
though.
If I remember correctly, here are the first steps:
1. Get the Linux driver tar-ball for this card on www.wavelan.com.
2. Get the newest version of the PCMCIA project tar-ball at
pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net.
3. In the tar-ball from Orinocco/Wavelan, you'll find good
instructions how to make sure the driver for the card is incorporated
into the pcmcia-package. This has never required any kernel compiling
for me, put you'll have to recompile the pcmcia-package.
Hope this gets you a few steps on the way.
Jesper
* On Thursday, February 22, Simon Cousins wrote:
>
> Hi listers,
>
> I've just aquired a Lucent/Orinoco WaveLAN Silver 802.11 PCMCIA card for my
> ThinkPad / Mdk 7.2
>
> I've RTFMs and the best guidance I've found is that the card is "supported"
> by Mdk 7.1.
>
> There is a separate source package from Orinoco for Linux use, which
> requires a kernel recompilation, however I'm somewhat unclear if that is
> likely to be necessary with the Mandrake distro.
>
> man wvlan_cs is only marginally helpful for a "what's needed" question.
>
> FWIW, the 7.2 installer identifies the card but spazzes out as "no network
> device is found". Not much help.
>
> Any advice is much appreciated before I slice-and-dice my primary working
> system...
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> --
>
> Simon Cousins
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'.
> Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality
> assurance people in its wake."
>
> #8 of the top 12 things likely to be overheard from your Klingon programmer.
>
>
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