Hello,

I have RH 9.0 installed on my laptop. Kernel: 2.4.20-30.9

I want to install my Orinoco Silver PCMCIA wireless card but when I insert the card, I only hear a beep but nothing else happens.

The lights in the card are turned off.

How can I tell that the drivers are installed ?

I am new in Linux. I come from Windows. Is there like a Device Manager ?

Do I need to download the drivers ?

If yes can anybody tell me from where and how ?

Thank you in advance

Hi
What kinda Orinoco is it
I am using a Proxim Orinoco 11 b/g which uses the Atheros chipset
and the MADWifi drivers.

The original Orinoco uses the orinoco drivers which most dist. already have.

Best post what kinda Orinoco you are using and post it,
or if it is the same as I am using try the MADWifi's

Cheers

Thank you Gibsonist.

Now, how can I tell which one I have ???

what speed does the card take? a b g bg abg?

You probably have bought the card and from somewhere and on the box or card should be a name/number
posted that and the vendor

you also can try to run
cardctl ident "Socketnumber"
or
cardctl info "Socketnumber"

that should give you some info, I can't give you the data of mine as a friend has my card at the moment.

Is it a Proxim you have? then look here
almost all are available in Gold and Silver

I'm having problems with my orinoco card also.
I'm running mandrake 10.0, and I have a proxim orinoco 11a/b/g silver combo card (PCMCIA slot) and linux doesn't see it correctly.
I installed ndiswrapper, and included tried two different drivers with it, but neither seemed to work correctly. I got the drivers from the page linked to by ndiswrapper or whatever.

I've tried the cardctl once before I believe, but linux didn't pick up the card at all. However, when I go to the hardware list (forgot what it's called) it shows up as an atheros chipset, but it still isn't being seen by ndiswrapper. any help would be awsome.