[nmglug] Wireless PCMCIA Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0

[Sam Noble]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:35 -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:00, Dave Nystrom wrote:
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.  I
> > would like to set it up so that I can have wireless internet access at home.
> > At home, I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router.  I have two wireless PCMCIA
> > cards.  One is a Netgear Wireless PC Card 32-bit Cardbus WG511.  The other is
> > a Proxim Orinoco Silver 11 a/b/g Combo Card.  Does anyone know if it is
> > possible to get either of these cards working on my laptop running Red Hat
> > Enterprise Linux 3.0?  If it is possible, can anyone point me to any How To
> > information?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> 
> Linux works well with orinoco cards. very easy to set up to.
> Just throw the card in .... and reboot , or modprobe if the kernel
> does not do it for you. Then just try dhclient eth1 or whatever.
> If this does not get you on then fool with iwconfig or maybe the
> wireless capplet for gnome... or something similar for kde. Should be
> easy.


Yeah Orinoco is supposed to be quite good, But if you run into problems
that Netgear card works well also. We set one up for Mike a few weeks
back at the glug.

It uses the prism54 driver. And like the intel wifi cards it needs it's
firmware loaded each time you crank it up. Don't let the appearance of
the driver in lsmod fool you. It won't work unless the firmware loads.

The forums (which seem to be down just now though www.prism54.org is
working) at prism54.org are quite good and had multiple how-to's as
sticky threads for getting that exact card working in Fedora. I bet if
you follow one of those you'll get there just fine; or if there are
additional difficulties caused by RHEL somebody probably has those
outlined as well.

If the forums ( http://prism54.org/forums/ ) don't come back up write
again and we'll figure something out.
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