Re: can't configure orinoco gold card on woody

[Tim Folger <tfolger@myrealbox.com>]

Thanks Marcus. I looked at the madwifi page at sourceforge but the 
drivers seem to be for pci and mini pci cards rather than regular 
notebook pcmcia cards.
Woody seems to recognize my card, but I think I must have entered the 
wrong information either in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts or in /etc/ 
network/interfaces
I've tried a bunch of permutations but haven't been able to get the card 
to work.

Tim

Marcus Crafter wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Ah.. yes, I get this too. Looks like they don't yet have a home page up.
>
> Try http://sourceforge.net/madwifi
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Tim Folger wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi Marcus,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I installed the hermes driver on the advice of 
> > someone on the debian laptop users list who also has an orinoco gold 
> > card. I went to the madwifi.sourceforge.net site but didn't see any 
> > drivers listed--only a parent directory. When I click on the parent 
> > directory the same page opens up, with just the parent directory on it.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > Marcus Crafter wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi Tim,
> > >
> > > Are you sure the card is based on the Hermes chipset and not the Atheros
> > > chipset?
> > >
> > > I have a Gold card with my machine (miniPCI though), and I bought it
> > > specifically because there were GPL drivers available at
> > > madwifi.sourceforge.net. Maybe those ones are the drivers you need?
> > >
> > > Hope that helps?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Marcus
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 05:45, Tim Folger wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm new to Linux, but somehow managed to install Debian Woody on a 
> > > > Fujitsu laptop. I installed the 2.4.18 kernel, configured pcmcia 
> > > > support, and installed the orinoco and hermes drivers during the 
> > > > "configure device driver module stage of the installation."  After 
> > > > installing the base system and rebooting I installed synaptic, KDE, and 
> > > > wireless tools. But I haven't been able to get my orinoco gold card to 
> > > > work. I've edited the wireless options file in /etc/pcmcia, and my 
> > > > wireless card beeps twice during startup, and its green lights flicker, 
> > > > but don't stay on. When I run "iwconfig eth1" in a console  it says no 
> > > > essid is specified, even though I have set the essid, encryption key, 
> > > > and a few other settings in wirelessopts. What am I missing? If I can 
> > > > get this to work I'll be free of Windows!
> > > >
> > > > Tim
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >
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> > >
> > >      
> >
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