I grabbed a Zcomax XI-325 802.11b PCMCIA card from a Netgear firewall/router/printserver device that was wireless. It is a Prism2.5 based card. I have read all over the place that people got this to work under Linux. I can't. I really am not sure how the PCMCIA subsystem works on Linux as I have never really used it before.

I put in the card and run "cardctl ident" and see that the card is inserted. Then I load the modules like "modprobe hermes; modprobe orinoco; modprobe orinoco_pci" From what I have read, that should see the card and assign it an ethx device. It doesn't. The modules load fine, but dmesg provides no indication of it seeing the card. Since it is a no-name card, I was thinking that it might load the proper support by picking the card by the manufactuer id, and it doesn't recognize this card. Is there some place I can put the ID of this card in the driver? I tried poking around the kernel source looking for a place or an array where it stores these, but I didn't find anything. I'm running Fedora Core 2 with the stock 2.6.5-1.358 kernel.

I use the hostap drivers for my Linksys WPC11 card. They work for the Prism 2/2.5/3 chipsets. Linux Unwired is a great book for configuring your wireless card in Linux. I used it, and it taught me how to use kismet with my wireless card.