I've been playing with Linux for a few weeks, first Manrake 9.2 and now Fedora Core 1. I've gotten Fedora pretty well set up but have been having a heck of a time with my wireless networking. I'm running an HP laptop with integrated Broadcom 54G wifi as well as an old Orinoco silver card. I had been trying to get the Broadcom to work but have given up that battle for now.... I know that the Orinoco card should work but have had almost no luck.

Yesterday I was able to boot with the card inserted and when it was removed I would hear a beep, then when it was inserted again I would get a high beep and low beep, which I believe is some sort of error warning. I had already tried to install the orinoco_cs driver (0.13e) so I don't know what was the problem then.

I've been messing with it, and stupidly I didn't keep good track of what I was doing, so I have taken a step backward I think.... Right now I can't boot with the card inserted - it hangs. If I boot without the card and insert it I either get nothing (no beeps or anything) or I get a single high beep and the machine locks up.

I am also seeing that I have the prism2_cs driver loading for wlan0 when I open the network configuration utility. I think this is from when I had tried to install the broadcom drivers with driver loader to use the Windows driver.

Where should I start to get my Orinoco card working? How can I verify if the drivers are installed properly? What can I do with the Broadcom card and the prism2 driver that seems to be loading? Can I remove it or fix it?

I've been living on Goole and everything that I have found and tried has led me to my present mess.

I can feel your pain as I also loaded Fedora Core1 and have been struggling with an Orinoco card. I know the card works with Linux as I had it working just fine with Mandrake 8.2.(after a lot of playing around trying). In my case I have a desktop with a pcmcia PCI adaptor. On boot up the card just isn't recognized. I will "insmod" hermes, orinoco, and orinoco_cs, then when I do a restart on pcmcia I get " yenta_socket: device or resource busy".I don't know exactly what that means but I have a feeling it's at the source of my problem. Like you I've been hitting Google and this site among others without much success. If you get yours working please post back here and I'll do the same.

mpo

I honestly think I had made myself some problems with all the random things I tried, having found them with Google, to get both cards to work. As a result I have just done a fresh install and am in the process of downloading all the updates. We will see how it goes from that point.

I'm considering doing the same thing for the same reasons. Just need a little extra time.

Good luck,
mpo

I didn't mind doing it..... I am using Fedora to learn and I have been getting pretty good at installing It seems that I have also figured out how to get the ACPI running on my laptop well.... I had issues with that initially but have a good understanding from messing up so many times

I also have successfully installed FC1 on my Compaq Presario 2585. I have everything working nicely (i.e. USB flash pen drive, PCMCIA, USB2.0, acpi), except for the Broadcom wireless. It would be nice to get this going. I also looked on Google for days and the only thing that looks promising is the Linuxant Driver Loader and http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/. I suggest using yum to update FC1, because using up2date and updating all .rpms may cause the menu text to disappear on the boot screen and in Gnome (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=1), which happened to me. I chose FC1 because it was the only distro that detected my sound card and configured my touch-pad correctly. I will take a whack at it using the ndiswrapper and let you know how it goes. I would appreciate any follow up posts if you get the wireless up and running. Thanks.