Hello
I a extremely new to using Linux. This is the first time I have tried installing the operating system and know very little about it. Trying to learn as I go. I have a sony V505ACP with the built in wireless adapter. I have been searching all over the the linux community web sites and found information on using a patched orinoco driver. The problem is I have no idea of how to install this or what to do with the driver. Could anyone point me to a step by step instruction to0 get this wireless card to work?
I have found all the info at linux-laptop.net but it doesn't provide a newbie like me with enough info.

Thanks so much
Bill

Hey.. i'm new too (high five) and I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro m15-s405... it came with WinXP HE and well.. i kind of got tired of the same old Windoze so I decited to try Linux..
Here in my college (UMich) the school uses Red Hat 9 on their machines so i installed it on my machine... the install was alright.. the laptop's mouse won't work correctly but i have a USB one so that's alright... but what really is a pain in the neck is that it doesn't support my Wi-Fi card either... does anybody have info on this?

oh, and also: i tried using a USB floppy drive.. it worked to use the diskette to read and write files but when i tried to format the diskette.. i got this error message: Unable to open the device /dev/fd0, formatting cannot continue.

thanks.. somebody help me!

What website is it that has the driver.

linux-laptop.net

What's the wireless adapter? A lot of these built-in cards are produced by companies that are almost actively anti-linux, so its impossible to get specs to build a driver. What's the output of the command:

/sbin/lspci

With regards to "Ethernet Controller"?

Cheers,

Finegan

I also have recently gotten a Toshiba, the M10-S405, that I believe has the same hardware, here's a copy of my lspci. It presently has RH9 on it. I think it's the unknown Intel device. Looking on the Intel website Linux support looks gloom. The indication of upcoming Linux drivers is more than seven months old.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3340 (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3341 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24cc (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24ca (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3)
02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
02:0a.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1043 (rev 04)
02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:0d.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)

Yeah, its a Centrino, the Intel 2100 wireless chipset. No hope for a while until Intel either releases a Linux drivers or specs on which to build one. There's a closed source wrapper utility produced by a company called www.linuxant.com that will let you use, no kidding, the windows XP driver with their kernel driver to get functionality out of the card. I really don't even like the idea of it, but by reports it works...

Cheers,

Finegan