Hi List,
FYI (and for the archives), I received the following advice from the
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On 2/23/01 10:22 AM, "Anthony Wesley" <awesley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The exact values depends a bit on what version of the pcmcia package you
> have. I am not familiar with Mandrake, but the first thing you ought to
> do is try to grab pcmcia-3.1.23.
>
> I found that 3.1.20 worked ok on older kernels (2.2.14) but would not
> compile on newer kernels.
>
> 3.1.21 and 3.1.22 had bugs that prevented the Orinoco cards from working
> without a patch. The patch is pretty simple - basically David Hinds (the
> maintainer for pcmcia-cs) tried to introduce parameter checking, but got
> it a bit wrong so that the softwarerefused to configure the cards even
> though the cards were capable of taking the configuration commands.
>
> 3.1.23 works ok with my current kernel (2.2.18).
Anthony was quite right about the pcmcia-cs package. pcmcia-cs-3.1.24 from
sourceforge works a treat.
FWIW, I have the client correctly using an Apple AirPort base station for
bridging to my LAN and the net.
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