[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless

[Jay Urish]

I run the orinoco silver...


At 01:41 PM 4/24/2004, you wrote:
>I'm good with getting the Orinoco but which one?  I just got a proxim Orinoco
>Gold model 8420-WD and it won't work either.  I have another disk for my
>laptop on which I've tried fresh installs of RH 9, Mandrake 10 Community,
>Fedora Core 1 and White Box Enterprise v3.0 all of which won't recoginze the
>damn thing.
>
>On Sat April 24 2004 1:07 pm, Jay Urish wrote:
> > I say just get the orinoco and be done with it.
> >
> > At 12:44 PM 4/24/2004, you wrote:
> > >I have reached my maximum frustration level (almost) because I can't get
> > > my wireless card to work.  I am running a fully updated version (all the
> > > latest rpms from dag and freshrpms apt repositories plus KDE 3.2.1 from
> > > god knows where) of FC1 on a Dell Latitude C840.  All was well until
> > > several weeks ago when my aged Linksys WPC11 v.0, which had done yoeman
> > > service since RH 7.3, gave up the ghost.
> > >
> > >I went out and bought a WPC11 v4 only to find out that it was incompatible
> > >but
> > >fortunately found out that WPC11 v3 is supposed to be compatible.  Linksys
> > >was delighted to replace my v4 with a v3 but, after many attempts, I
> > > cannot get it to work.  At this point my system will not even recognize
> > > the card (it won't beep when the card is inserted or light up the status
> > > lights which it was doing when I started), which I don't understand since
> > > the pcmcia script is being loaded at start up.  In fact it won't
> > > recognize my pcmcia modem either so I've obviously hosed my pcmcia setup.
> > >  I've tried installing and using wlan (which has got to be the most
> > > obtuse thing ever invented).
> > >
> > >Is the WPC11 v3 actually compatible with Linux or should I get another
> > > card (if so which one)?  How can I repair my pcmcia configuration?  How
> > > can I configure my WPC11 for my system (presuming it is compatible)?
> > >--
> > >Scott Hollomon
> > >Collin Street Bakery, Inc.
> > >scott at collinstreet.com
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>Scott Hollomon
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>401 W. 7th Avenue
>Corsicana, TX  75110
>phone 903.654.6675
>fax 903.654.6767
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