Linksys Wireless 802.11 Ver. 3

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Posted 14 December 2002 - 02:45 AM

Anyone have any ideas how I can get this card working under Red Hat 8. None of the included driver work and the auto detect doesn't recognize the card. ...........

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Posted 18 December 2002 - 12:39 AM

Have you had any luck? I just bought one of these today and was about to try it with RH8.

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Posted 18 December 2002 - 01:09 AM

http://www.saragossa.net/LinuxG3/ls-wlan.shtml

Read this page, seems pretty straight forward to me. Will try it tomorrow or the day after.

Hope this helps.

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Posted 19 December 2002 - 11:33 PM

thanks will try it. No luck so far

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Posted 21 December 2002 - 01:43 PM

OK i got it working just fine.
What I had to do was the following:
1. Boot PC with the card not fitted.
2. loaded modules orinoco, orinoco_cs, hermes
3. Fit card, PC should beep.
4. tail -10 /var/log/messages and write down the 2 addresses after manfid
5. create /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf with the following in it.
device "orinoco_cs"
class "network"
module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
# LinkSys WPC11
card "Instant Wireless Network PC Card"
manfid 0x0274,0x1612 #Substitute your addresses here
bind "orinoco_cs"

6. restart pcmcia services - /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

Now in network settings you should be able to add new device - wireless and see the Orinoco card type available.

Hope this helps.