[Scottish] Detecting Wireless Network Cards

[Ross McLachlan]

When I still had my Belkin card all the information I used said it was a a
prismII chipset.. I was however unsuccessful in getting it working in Linux
and went for an Orinoco card instead..


Ross McLachlan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Perry" <craig@onemanstudfarm.co.uk>
To: <scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Scottish] Detecting Wireless Network Cards


> Hi,
>
> Does the belkin use the prismII chipset??? I'm sure it does but you'll
need
> to double check. If it does, then i've found that although the orinocco_cs
> and hermes helper module will work in some circumstances, you're probably
> better with the WLAN-NG drivers. Hope this helps.
>
>
> http://www.linux-wlan.com/
> regards craig.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart McCulloch Anderson" <stuart@nx14.com>
> To: <scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:14 PM
> Subject: [Scottish] Detecting Wireless Network Cards
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to install an Belkin Wireless PCI Network Card 802.11b into
my
> > desktop. I am having problem getting RedHat 9 to recognise and install
the
> > card.
> > lspci -v detects the PCI card as
> >
> > 00:0a.0 Network controller: Linksys: Unknown device 8201 (rev 11)
> >         Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation: Unknown device 3201
> >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
> >         I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
> >         Memory at dffff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
> >         Expansion ROM at dffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> >         Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> >
> > /etc/pcmcia/config allready had the lines
> >
> > device "orinoco_cs"
> >   class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
> >
> > but i added
> >
> >         card "Belkin Accton Technology Wireless PCI Card"
> >   version "Accton Technology", "PCI"
> >   bind "orinoco_cs"
> >
> > and also changed to /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to
> >         PCMCIA=yes
> > PCIC=i82365
> > PCIC_OPTS=
> > CORE_OPTS=
> >
> > cardctl ident returns
> > no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
> >
> > I am not 100% positive that the PCIC in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia should be
> i82365,
> > although that is the setting in all the examples I have seen. Any
> suggestions
> > on what is going on?
> >
> >  N.B. I have _not_ done anything i have not said here so if i missed
> something
> > out that could be the problem.
> >
> >  -S
> >
> > ICQ#:  164219648                  MSN: stuand2k3@hotmail.com
> > AIM: stuand2000                   URL: http://mranderson.nx14.com
> >
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