Sorry Finegan... I was one post lagging behind you.
Thanks!! I think we have the card configured correctly, but I still can't connect.

dhcpcd eth0 indicates that it is already running

So it should be getting an ip address issued from the linksys router downstairs... but it is not.

Any more direction?

I'll look at my Redhat bible on my end.

Ignore that middle post of mine, we must have been typing at the same time. This:

ermes.c: 12 Dec 2000 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.06c (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
dldwd: David's Less Dodgy WaveLAN/IEEE Driver
orinoco_cs.c 0.06 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth0: Firmware ID 1F vendor 0x3 (Samsung) version 0.08
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
eth0: MAC address 00:03:2F:00:C1:A3
eth0: Station name "Prism I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 9, io 0x0180-0x01bf

is the kernel recognizing that card. Its cool, you've got a signal, the device is indeed eth0. Now you just need to latch onto that router. What kind is it offhand if my above post doesn't work.

Luck,

Finegan

The router is a linksys Etherfast Wireless Access Point + Cable/DSL Router with 4 Port switch (BEFW11S4)
product page

Normally on Windows the dhcp issues the ip automatically, so I am not sure where the IP address of the router is located.

It works.... I now have internet!

I went to my network configuration app,

selected my eth0 device profile and edited the eth0 device to use the Hardware address which I probed for... then restarted the laptop and now it all works!


Many thanks finegan, jbanafato, bbenz3!

I really had lost hope that I would get it working.

Now to the next adventure.

Thank-you thank-you thank-you!

:Nate:

Hi, I forget the SN of the person who started this thread, nate something, but I was wondering what you did to get RH7.2 to even regonzie your linksys card, becuase I have the same card/system and can't get it to even regonzie the card.
thanks.
-Chris

I just put the card in the slot and the red & green lights started blinking and my KDE Control Center under PCMCIA seemed to recognize the card was there by listing the intersil Prism2 11mbps Wireless adapter.... but even though the card was recognized, i had no network access.

RedHat 7.2 comes equipped with wireless intersil drivers (The wrong drivers albeit, but the card should still be recognized)... and I don't see why yours should be any different...

Perhaps you should just follow the steps in the thread and see if it leads to your card getting recognized. ie.... get the hermes.conf file, and then configure your network configuration app.

:Nate:

Hi, thanks...I completley plan to just follow the steps in this thread, I just didn't see my card get recgonized, so I am updating my kernel and packages now, I also do'nt have the orinico modules running at this time? Did you? Also, did you d/l any drivers or anything? When I plug my card in, I don't hear any beeps, or anything, and the its not listed in the hardware manager?
Thanks.
-Chris

I had the orinco driver's... but I think they were listed as "wvlan"
rather than orinco.

The only thing I installed was the hermes.conf file... and then adjusted the network eth0 configuration.

All this is stated in the thread.
Finnegan's guidance really should provide the solution. That's all I can really say

Good luck.

Thanks so much for the help in this thread. I just solved the same problem that natesaider suffered by trying out everything you folks suggested. My card works and I can surf. Many thanks!

I've been through 5 days of hell trying to get this card to work. I have followed all the steps in this posting and when I insert the card I get the beep, BONG!! Can anyone please help me??

RH7.2
LinkSys WPC11

First off, is the file hermes.conf in /etc/pcmcia

Make sure it isn't in that directory saved with the .txt extension, sometimes certain download managers append that.

Secondly, make absolutely certain that the card is a Linksys WPC11, prism2, they also put out the 2.5 and the 3 which only require a little file tweaking to run.

Also, what does "dmesg" say when the thing goes bonk?

Cheers,

Finegan

Thank you for responding!!!!

-hermes.conf is in place.

-The Linksys card is version 3. Does this mean it uses the Prism3 driver?

-I'm at work so I can't check the dmesg, I'll check it tonight.

No you're fine, I think, another guy and I on another thread poked about and were able to get the 2.5 version working by just changing the information in the .conf file, tricking pcmcia cardbus into binding the driver... You may want to download and compile the newest set of orinoco drivers from Dave. Okay, I apologize for this, but I'm in a rush to get out of town for 4 days so I haven't got time to hunt the links... here's some directions:

www.google.com/linux

plug in: orinoco wireless and take the first hit, Jean's page, supported by HP, poke around until you find a link to Dave's less dodgy wavelan driver and download the newest version, it compiles without a hitch, bada bing.

Hack the hermes.conf and change the information for the version 2 card with 3's. This is a guess, might want to juggle it around a bit, keep a pristine copy somewhere else in case you forget how the original looked.

This may not work, again, me and the other guy hacked it with throwing in 2.5 everywhere.

Check dmesg for binding information. If the driver tries to load but fails because v3 is REALLY different from v2, then you'll get a different load of errors.

Sorry I'm in a hurry,

Cheers,

Finegan

Should I just return this card and get one that will be less of a hassle?

Maybe, I hit this message first, and you caught me right next to the last one... okay, I really need to get on the road.

I banged my head against getting the original v2 working about a year ago, all while the drivers were very beta, and orinoco driver set didn't even support the thing. Oh, and I have since smoked my card :P

If you can swap it out easy, yeah I recommend doing so. The other good cards on the market, the ZERO hastle Orinoco Silver (harder to find), the D-Link DWL-650 (I think that's its number), cheap, and offhand the Cisco Aironet, bloody brilliant card. Those are the first three I've had negative hastle with.

Cheers,

Finegan