On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:59:00AM -0500, Glen Wagley wrote:
> Ok, I bow to everyone's superiority :-) I would like to think that I know how to
> configure wireless pcmcia cards but I obviously don't. My co-worker has brought
> his laptop up here to work with a brand new redhat 9 install. According to what
> cardctl ident tells me, this is a Siemens Speedstream pcmcia. I checked out
> http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html and found that this card has
> one of the Prism chipsets. Now, how do you go about creating the device? Would
> it be eth0 or wlan0? I'm stumped here. I can modprobe orinoco_cs just fine, but
> I don't have the device set up or anything. He's (my co-worker) beginning to
> lose faith in Linux....

Do you have pcmcia installed?  Do you know how to start it?
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start (service pcmcia start).  Then if you are lucky you
will hear two high pitched beeps.  :)  Let me know how that works for
you.

Phillip

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Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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