Its not the browser, or X, or the router, its the driver. PCI support for orinoco cards is still a little betaq and it seems you got shorted by that. You can try a newer version of the orinoco drivers, or possibly one of these two:

ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/

or,

http://hostap.epitest.fi/

Cheers,

Finegan

Finegan,
I have not had time to try the other drivers yet but I did try turning off encryption. THis seems to have fixed the problem with the connection dropping. However, it leaves my wireless network wide open, as you know.

I will try the other drivers sometime in the next few days....hopefully.

Hello,
I have a WPCII linksys version 3, have downloaded the latest wlan driver 16 pre 4. I am now not very sure about one thing. When it asks for the pcmcia source, i'm getting a unsure. I know i can download pcmcia_cs, untar and then make .... and yes i'll have a directory for the src But what i'm worried about is won't it comflict with my already working kernel pcmcia. I did try to get the kernel pocmcia src rpm (i'm using redhat 8.0 since a few days) but it wouldn't install(rpm -Uvh file.rpm) . Can you please give some comments as to what steps are best for me to get the wireless connection going.

thank you for the time.
really appreciated

I was pretty certain that the linux-wlan drivers would finally work with in-kernel PCMCIA, but I'm not certain so you may want to check through the README that came with the source. If they're not still married to pcmcia-cs, it should just be a matter of finding the pcmcia-cs.src.rpm and unpacking that.

Even though most distros have switched over to in-kernel pcmcia (finally!), the pcmcia-cs package is still compiled and installed for the non-kernel binaries such as cardmgr and cardctl etc.

Cheers,

Finegan