I've installed Redhat 8, 9, gentoo, and now Fedora and one thing has always been the same:

I can't get the WMP11 to work. I know, there's hundreds of threads, ndiswrapper, this fix, that fix...

I just don't feel like dealing with it...

I connect wirelessly to a Linksys router and would like my Fedora machine to connect to the internet, and ideally to my Windows network. But I'll settle for just internet right now.

If I go to the store, or shop the net, what do I buy (make, model)? I just want to plug it in and go. Or perhaps, even better, a usb wireless that I can just stick in the back of my machine and Fedora will know what to do with it? I guess I'm looking for a card that has native Linux drivers/support.

Please just list models that you know will work, if any, under this scenario. I'm just ready to go spend the money. I'll use the WMP11 in my next Windows machine...

Thanks.

WB

Check the hcl at this site.

I too would like to know which Wireless NIC to buy that is linux friendly - the HCL lists by maker so I have to go through each maker - then cross reference the product number - doesn't give me the whole picture.

Anyone know a wireless NIC that has open linux drivers?

Buy an Orinoco PCMCIA Card. It's 200% compatible. By the way, it is the most compatible PCMCIA Card for Linux.

http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/client/

Cumps,
JB

I'm running FC2 and have an MN-520 and STILL cant get it to work. It sees it as the MN-520 initially then for some reason it changes to the Orinoco_CS. I tried add the line to the config file and still havent had any success working so far.

Hi my prism card driver (orinoco) says that it cannot find the hardware although it did detect it on bootup. Any advise??

4x4:
orinoco_cs is the driver, and it will work quite nicely with Prism chipset cards like the MN-520. Use the FC network configuration tool to set up the wireless and network parameters and you should be in business.

sk8:
Which card? List out the loaded modules to see if you have the right one - lsmod is the command.

Hi,
Fedora Core 2 detected my Dlink card DWL-520 as an ethernet card (and not a wireless device) when I installed the operating system.
Secondly, it says "no such device" whenever I try to do
<command> <wireless device name>
Thirdly, the following is the message from dmesg (please pay ATTENTIOn to the driver compaining hardware unavailable):
Basically, how do I make a new device??

orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> )
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:0b.0 (0004 -> 0006)
Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:01:0b.0, mem:0x40300000 to 0x40300FFF -> 0x1a92a000, irq:11
Reset done...........................................................................................<7>or inoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=15c82ce0)
.<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=15c82ce0)
.<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=15c82ce0)
.................................................................................................... .........................................................;
Clear Reset............................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... ........;
pci_cor : reg = 0x2 - 16AAD6 - 16A8E2
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2
hermes @ MEM 0x1a92a000: Timeout waiting for card to reset (reg=0x0000)!
eth2: failed to initialize firmware (err = -110)
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth2
eth2: Failed to register net device
orinoco_pci: probe of 0000:01:0b.0 failed with error -110
[root@localhost /]# ifconfig eth2
eth2: error fetching interface information: Device not found[B]

I'm actually after a PCI version - pcmcia - pci bridges are the pits

Sorry, sk8ercool2001, I'm not much of an expert on PCI adapters.

hey 2 Gnu,
would he linux-wlan work on the 2.6.5 (FC 2) kernel??
coudl you point me in the right direction or somehting?

If you want 802.11g get something with a prism54 chipset. Dead easy to setup, and everything is supported except WPA. Cool
www.prism54.org

Can someone tell me what card to use with Linuxant? I'm looking for the easiest possible scenario, and I don't mind paying the $20.00 just to circumvent any potential issues...

Thank you!

no

unfortunately it is a dlink dwl-520 11Mbps PCI card
anything easy??