Orinoco PCMCIA cards... work or not?

nolesfan · 09-24-2006, 09:02 PM

My laptop is a Dell Latitude C610. I currently have a Linksys WPC54G wireless card with the BCM4318 chipset. No matter what I do, I cannot get it to work. I heard and have read the Orinico Classic Gold wireless card does work. Can anyone verify this?

2Gnu · 09-24-2006, 10:07 PM

Buy an SMC card ... in fact, buy this one: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=479260

Just as functional as an ORiNOCO Classic but more power.

ehawk · 09-24-2006, 10:41 PM

I found that the orinoco classic gold pc card worked well with fedora core 3 and 4. When you attempted to add it using the network device configurator, it suggested a driver which worked. WEP was supported, but not WPA. You can check with them, but I would think if they offered a newer b/g card, it would work with WPA by now.

nolesfan · 09-25-2006, 04:46 PM

I'm running Mepis 6.0, if this makes any sort of difference. It seems to be Wifi friendly. I checked out the above mentioned SMC card, but it is only 802.1 b. The Orinoco comes in 802.11 b/g. I don't know if it'll make a huge difference. Any input? There doesn't seem to be a clear cut choice. I just know most anything will work better than the current card. WPA or WEP won't matter either.

2Gnu · 09-25-2006, 09:48 PM

You asked about the ORiNOCO Classic Gold. That's an 802.11B card that will only do WEP, same as the SMC. There are other B/G and A/B/G cards sold under the ORiNOCO and Proxim brands that will work - the ones with Atheros chipsets. It's the chipset, not the brand that makes the difference.

Your Linksys card should work, for that matter, using ndiswrapper.