hello all, rick, thanks for the links in your reply from a week ago or so. i *had* read some of those links and others. At least one of those links was useful though, pointing me at something that pointed me at something, that eventually won success :).
i finally got the card (a Linksys Instant Wireless WPC11 PCMCIA 802.11b card) working. I gave up on trying to build a kernel or use the three different drivers i found. instead i tried to just read all the documentation i could find. after groveling through quite a bit of documentation and through the kernel source documentation too of the Mandrake 8.2 standard kernel i found out that it is actually already supported. This fact isn't made clear anywhere i could find but i pieced it together from hints in many different places. The Linksys WPC11 is based on the Prism2 and is supported by the orinoco_cs module. Many other common cards are based on the Prism2 (e.g., the D-Link PCMCIA card and some of the other, less expensive cards) and should work with the orinoco_cs driver. To be fair, there is somewhere on the web that says that many Prism2 cards are supported directly by the orinoco_cs card and i'd tried to get the orinoco card working when i was still messing around with the source. in order to get the card to work, i edited the /etc/pcmcia/config file and added the following entry: card "Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card" manfid 0x0274, 0x1613 bind "orinoco_cs" this i got from some web page, but i can't attribute correctly since i don't remember where i got it from. it was probably from either the documentation for linux-wlan-ng or Jean Tourrilhes Prism2 project. At some point, I *will* still have to get it working with the generic Linus (or one of the alternate) kernel. For now, suffice it to say that that's too much trouble and i won't go into it yet as I've wasted two weeks or so futzing around with the thing :). On a separate issue, has anyone used Win4Lin 4.0? I've tried VMWare and it's just too slow to use. I've seen some reviews that state that it runs almost at full speed. Adjusting for marketing hype, i figure that means that on a 233Mhz box, Windows under Win4Lin might feel like it's running on a 166 or 133 Mhz Pentium. that's good enough for me. But I'd like confirmation from those who've actually tried it. And the docs I've read indicate that Win4Lin requires the use of a special kernel configured to run Win4Lin. Is this a binary only kernel? or is there source? if there's source then i'll have at least a fighting change at getting the wireless card working. if it's binary, it might still be possible, but i think it's unlikely and i'd give up on Win4lin before even trying it. thanks for any input. tiger _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
