In fact, i had this pleasant experience setting up a PCMCIA orinoco card
on my notebook. I plugged it in, then the pcmcia system auto loaded the
drivers (wavelan). It took me just to run dhcpcd to get my notebook up
and connected to the net. Hows that for plug an play!
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jeff Gutierrez wrote:
> ##Lucent/Orinoco wireless cards (dunno about the others,
> ##might work, but have not personally tested it.) can
> ##talk to each other without those expensive access points.
>
> BTW the Orinoco Gold, and Silver WiFi cards, Linksys WiFi cards,
> D-Link WiFi cards, and a host of other brands are all based on the
> Intersil Prism 2/2.5 chipset. So Linux drivers for these cards aren't
> that hard to come by. I specifically use the linux-wlan Prism driver
> for WiFi/11Mbps (aka linux-wlan-ng.)
>
> stay cool.
>
> jeff --
>
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