Civileme wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2001 21:32, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
>
>>Er, um. I hate to be critical. But which part of "mandrake.com" made you
>>think to send a "RedHat" question here?
>>I think this question is better suited to the Redhat lists?
>>
>>Ric
>>
>>Amaresh Bikki wrote:
>>
>>>hai all,
>>>i am running redhat 7.1 on Intel pentium. redhat is not detecting the
>>>newly added orinoco pci adapter card. please help.
>>>
>>>-Amaresh.
>>>
>
> Go here
>
> http://www.orinocowireless.com/template.html?section=m52&envelope=90&page=2576
>
> Ric, shame on you! Have you ever dealt with a RH list?
Yes I have. I ran Redhat for many years. In fact, the redhat lists are
part of what drove me to try Mandrake. I wanted to retire my flame
retardent underware...
In retrospect, I regret the harshness of that answer, and respectfully
appologize.
Ric
>
>
> The Orinoco is a proprietary driver based on a nearly controllerless wireless
> LAN where your software does the work. Hence the hardware is cheaper than
> the "real" drivers, but no company is likely to package it for a linux
> distro. You will have to download the source with its big, hidden binary and
> compile it. Furthermore, it is strictly for Kernels 2.0-2.2, so you will
> have to load an old kernel for RH 7.1 if they offer one.
>
> Civileme
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