Guest kyle Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Anybody got ANY wirless pcmcia card to work om a laptop. I've tried the following Netgear MA401 (not the 401RA) version Suse 8.1 -- not even recognized Mandrake 9.1 Rc2 hangs after 2 mins Mandrkare 9 hangs after 2 mins Red hat 8 and redhat phoebe (beta 8.1) not reconizes. Belkin 11 mps wireless card -- same problem as Netgear -- I suspect it's using some sort of Prism II driver with mods that make it inoperable. USR robotics 22 mps wireless card -- all above distros don't even recognize Orinoco Gold card ----- Magic this one works BUT ONLY ON redhat 8, phoebe and mandrake 9.0 On Mandrake 9.1 RC2 -- I want to use this as I like the snazzier KDE etc. even with no card in the slot I get Memory fail CS or something like that and the system keeps issuing console messages So I'm torn between Mandrake 9.1 which I like the look of and it works fine on my desktop and red hat phoebe which doesn't run as fast as mandrake (at least not on my laptop) but the wireless card works --- and I NEED the wireless connection. Nearly Windows free -- at last. The Orinoco gold card seems to be the one that causes least problems but it's sure difficult to source them in the UK I won't be bothering with Suse again -- if I can't even get the install program to load properly what chance of the actual distro being OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 My wife uses a laptop for windoze, we used a "Sitecom" wirless pcmcia card, through a router. I can access her laptop through mdk RC2, so sitecom might be worth a try. http://www.sitecom.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dturley Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 I use a Linksys WPC11 card with MD 8.2. Just install the wireless tools rpm. The follwoing isntructions were given in an ealier thread, I'll repeat so them are linked with this thread. Create /etc/pcmcia/linksys_wpc11.conf containing: card "Linksys WPC11" manfid 0x0274, 0x1613 bind "orinoco_cs" Then edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts to have a section for the card. I used the "generic" sample that was there and set: ESSID="myESSID" MODE="Managed" KEY="my_26_character_key" Match the settings to your AP, and you are set. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuyo Posted March 30, 2003 Report Share Posted March 30, 2003 I have a D-Link Wireless 650 that works fine in RedHat 8.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palmor Posted March 31, 2003 Report Share Posted March 31, 2003 I'm using the the same netgear card that you tried (ma401) with Mandrake 9.1 (final version) and it works like a charm. I had the card in the laptop when I did the Mandrake install and it just worked. All I had to do of course was setup my networking properties (ip address etc). Oh I'm using a Dell CPx PIII 500, nothing special at all. Hope that helps John Edit: I had the same card working with Mandrake 8.1. I had too use the Orinoco drivers to get it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted April 5, 2003 Report Share Posted April 5, 2003 I have a Siemens Speedstream wireless card on my Inspiron 8200 with Mandrake 9.0. My post here: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...1922&highlight= details how I got it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted May 2, 2003 Report Share Posted May 2, 2003 I know of orinoco silver 11Mbps wireless pcmcia card that works fine with IBM laptop on redhat 8.0 and 9. Also, a friend reported that on his laptop (running mandrake 9.1), the same card worked out-of-the-box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ROCCY Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 for details look at my response to the topic about the Cisco 350 and TP 390E. FWIW, I had even less trouble with a Cisco 340 (in at initial install - delightful shock to have it picked up ;-) and the Xircom re-badged version of it, CWE-1120 - worked "automagically" after I updated it with my SSID and WEP key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwriter Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Anybody got ANY wirless pcmcia card to work om a laptop. I've tried the following Netgear MA401 (not the 401RA) version OK.... I've gotten the above card running under MDK SuSE etc etc etc. For mandrake the Entry in /etc/pcmcia/config looked something like. card "NETGEAR MA401 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card" version "NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC", "Card", "Version 01.00" bind "orinoco_cs" This won't work...... So I started fooling around and tried to take it straight from # cardctl ident and I got. card "Netgear MA401RA Wireless PC" version "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P", "Eval-RevA" bind "orinoco_cs" As my new entry for the file. Replaced it as above in the config file and then... restarted PCMCIA ... and poof. It works and it works well. WOO HOO. James :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 That's the Mandrake compatibility database. Oh god!! I just am praying the wireless card i get with my school laptop next year is compatible!!!! **GULP** If it isn't!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Oh well, too early to worry now. If it doesn't work now it might in kernel 2.6. Welcome Nightwriter!! We got another James here too now! James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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