I am looking to buy a wi-fi 802.11b pcmcia card for my laptop that will hopefully run on linux as well. I would appreciate any suggestions/advice from the list. I have my eyes set on the D-link DWL-650 (also saw an article on linux use of the card on shlashdot) but I don't know whether it will be able to operate under Suse. In any case all suggestions/buying tips will be appreciated. Josef
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:39:03PM -0200, Josef Demergis wrote:
I am looking to buy a wi-fi 802.11b pcmcia card for my laptop that will hopefully run on linux as well. I would appreciate any suggestions/advice from the list. I have my eyes set on the D-link DWL-650 (also saw an article on linux use of the card on shlashdot) but I don't know whether it will be able to operate under Suse. In any case all suggestions/buying tips will be appreciated.
I can highly recommend the Orinoco silver cards (formerly Lucent wavelan). I have two in different laptops and they have worked flawlessly. They are well supported in Linux and inexpensive. They just work. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
I have a Compaq WL110 which I have not yet been able to use on my SuSE 7.3 laptop. We had it running at our Linux installfest on other distros. I think the problem is that it brings up the orinoco_cs driver. On the others it seems to load wvlan_cs The WL110 uses the Orinoco chipset. On 23 Apr 2002 at 12:59, Keith Winston wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:39:03PM -0200, Josef Demergis wrote:
I am looking to buy a wi-fi 802.11b pcmcia card for my laptop that will hopefully run on linux as well. I would appreciate any suggestions/advice from the list. I have my eyes set on the D-link DWL-650 (also saw an article on linux use of the card on shlashdot) but I don't know whether it will be able to operate under Suse. In any case all suggestions/buying tips will be appreciated.
I can highly recommend the Orinoco silver cards (formerly Lucent wavelan). I have two in different laptops and they have worked flawlessly. They are well supported in Linux and inexpensive. They just work.
Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
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Have you visited http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ ? Dee -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gerry.feldman@compaq.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:20 AM To: SuSE Linux Mailing list Subject: Re: [SLE] wi fi pcmcia card buy I have a Compaq WL110 which I have not yet been able to use on my SuSE 7.3 laptop. We had it running at our Linux installfest on other distros. I think the problem is that it brings up the orinoco_cs driver. On the others it seems to load wvlan_cs The WL110 uses the Orinoco chipset. On 23 Apr 2002 at 12:59, Keith Winston wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:39:03PM -0200, Josef Demergis wrote:
I am looking to buy a wi-fi 802.11b pcmcia card for my laptop that will hopefully run on linux as well. I would appreciate any suggestions/advice from the list. I have my eyes set on the D-link DWL-650 (also saw an article on linux use of the card on shlashdot) but I don't know whether it will be able to operate under Suse. In any case all suggestions/buying tips will be appreciated.
I can highly recommend the Orinoco silver cards (formerly Lucent wavelan). I have two in different laptops and they have worked flawlessly. They are well supported in Linux and inexpensive. They just work.
Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles
-- Jerry Feldman Portfolio Partner Engineering 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ Compaq Computer Corp. 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752
Yes. There is some more stuff I want to try when I have a bit more time. On 23 Apr 2002 at 9:37, W.D.McKinney wrote:
Have you visited
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:20:20PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I have a Compaq WL110 which I have not yet been able to use on my SuSE 7.3 laptop. We had it running at our Linux installfest on other distros. I think the problem is that it brings up the orinoco_cs driver. On the others it seems to load wvlan_cs
The WL110 uses the Orinoco chipset.
The file that controls which driver gets loaded is /etc/pcmcia/config. In my default file on 7.3, the WL110 should load wvlan_cs. See below: card "Compaq WL100 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter" manfid 0x0138, 0x0002 bind "wvlan_cs" Check your /etc/pcmcia/config file and use "cardctl ident" to see what the system sees for your card. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
Aparently the WL110 does is not detected by this line. On 23 Apr 2002 at 13:40, Keith Winston wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:20:20PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I have a Compaq WL110 which I have not yet been able to use on my SuSE 7.3 laptop. We had it running at our Linux installfest on other distros. I think the problem is that it brings up the orinoco_cs driver. On the others it seems to load wvlan_cs
The WL110 uses the Orinoco chipset.
The file that controls which driver gets loaded is /etc/pcmcia/config. In my default file on 7.3, the WL110 should load wvlan_cs. See below:
card "Compaq WL100 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter" manfid 0x0138, 0x0002 bind "wvlan_cs"
Check your /etc/pcmcia/config file and use "cardctl ident" to see what the system sees for your card.
Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
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