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Old 02-20-2002, 05:08 PM   #1
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Angry Red Hat 7.2 and Orinico PC Cards


Im trying to setup Red Hat Linux 7.2 as my firewall at home but it won't find my wirless PCMCIA card. Im using an ISA converter and I just can't get it to see the card. Being new to Linux I have asked several Linux guru's around my workplace but no one can seem to figure it out. All i can say is HELP!!!!!!




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Old 02-20-2002, 05:34 PM   #2
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An ISA adapter? One that was made for the Orinoco card?

Wow... okay I'm stuck at work and I'm going to have to wait until I can get back and poke around my own RedHat box to see if RH 7.2 has:

A) the new orinoco drivers as opposed to the old wvlan drivers. They both cover the orinocos, which were just the Lucent Bronze-Gold cards before Lucent spun the company. Also, the Prism2 cards from Linksys, Dlink and the like.

B) Any of the _plx stuff compiled by default.

C) How the ISA card support works. Probably have to pass the module a value like io=0x300 and irq=12 or something.

I follow up later.

Cheers,

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Old 02-21-2002, 10:43 AM   #3
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I happen to be stuck at school so I don't know about the drivers and all of that stuff but I know the ISA converter was made by orinico for their cards. We also have the silvercard if that helps any.




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Old 02-21-2002, 05:58 PM   #4
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Rockin',

Sorry I got lamblasted with crap last night and couldn't poke around for you.

First off, you may want to check out the site that is the nexus of Linux+wireless+Orinoco gear, run by Jean Tourrilhes who works for HP, here.

I think this will require the following. RH7.2 came with orinoco drivers, which really work better than the wvlan set, but I don't know if they carried over the ISA adapter functionality as that's a lot of code to hack for some old hardware. I'm almost certain they did as I've gotten the driver set to work with my prism2+PCI adapter combo... as well as 3 Orinoco Silver cards

modprobe hermes
modprobe orinoco

Check 'dmesg' to see if the kernel is registering the device. There should be 1 line of goop for the module loading, and then a flurry of 5 lines if it detects the hardware.

There are quite a few modules that go into getting an orinoco card to work. Run a locate for 'orinoco' and you may want to try to probe more if the above doesn't work... and if none of the how-to's off of Jean's page help.

If none of that works... you might need to get a newer kernel. 2.4.12 had a huge Orinoco update and the one to come out in a week or so, 2.4.18, will have another biggie. Compiling a kernel can be rough... so its best to try everything else first.

Also, no matter what, you're going to want to load Jean's wireless tools package which will allow you to mess with the network name (essid), channel, blah blah blah, from the command line. RH would not have installed them unless you installed 'everything' or 'laptop utilities'. Don't try to compile the source off of her site... bleh! The RPM is probably on the second CD, called wireless_tools-something-something-hopefully newer than v.19

Hope that's a start.

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 03-01-2002, 09:05 AM   #5
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Thanks for all the advice I think we might be able to figure out things from here. The only thing that I'm a little worried about is when downloading the drivers in said something about haveing to write some of your own code so I maybe comming back with some more questions.

Thanks again

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