I have just obtained an ORiNOCO Classic Gold PCI - 8422-WD PCI card, with the ORiNOCO Classic Gold card attached to the PCI card adapter. I thought that this would work in Linux just like the ORiNOCO Classic Gold card using the orinoco_cs drivers, but unfortunately the card is recognized as an unknown PCI card in Linspire and is also recognized as a wireless card in SuSE 9.2, but I cannot configure it.

lspci -v shows this card as:

0000:00:0a.0 Network controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device ab20
Subsystem: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device ab20
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data

Does anyone have any experience with these or suggestions as to what to try next?

Further input and observations:

This card is nothing more than a PCI adapter with an ORiNOCO Classic Gold Card in it and sold together by Proxim.

The ORiNOCO driver is included in Linspire and works with a normal ORiNOCO Gold card as you would expect in my laptop out of the box with no setup. You just put in your WEP key and ESSID and you are on your way.

It would appear that the PCI to PCMCIA bridge chip in the included PCI adapter (QuickLogic) in not recognized by Linux.

In confirmation of this, I also have another type of PCI to PCMCIA adaptor with a Ricoh chipset in it and it is recognized and lets the ORiNOCO Gold card from my laptop work on a desktop just fine with Linux.

So, it looks to me like the QuickLogic chipset in the adapter card is the whole problem with the 8422-WD ORiNOCO Classic Gold card.

Any idea if this QuickLogic PCI to PCMCIA adaptor can be made to work in Linux?

By the way the PCI to PCMCIA adapter that just works with a PC Card adapter card is at Netgate.com at http://www.netgate.com/product_info....products_id=28

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Well, I returned the 8422-WD card which has the PCI adaptor card include and got a Netgate PCI adaptor and the Orinoco Classic Gold 8410-WD which works with it.