On 00:08 Wed 26 Oct , Steve Lamb wrote: > Adam Porter wrote: > > There are several web sites dedicated to WiFi on Linux, with extensive > > lists of cards and how they are supported. Google is your friend. :) > > None of which, when I last googled, has specific instructions for Debian > with specific card recommendations. The best they got was chipsets which are > *not* listed on the boxes! Nor were they in any way related to Debian. That > is why I asked on a Debian list the very specific question I did. Specific > card recommendations with specific instrcutions for Debian; not just linux in > general. > I have used Debian with the Orinoco Silver card on an old IBM Thinkpad. Its been a few years since i set it up but from my notes the drivers used were: orinoco orinoco-cs hermes ds yenta_socket and pcmcia_core.
The Debian specific info i found in the man pages for cardmgr, cardinfo, pcmcia and pcmcia_core. You will have to install pcmcia first. To my kernel config i added the following to get pcmcia support and the necessary drivers: CONFIG_PCMCIA CONFIG_CARDBUS CONFIG_I82365 CONFIG_NET_RADIO CONFIG_HERMES CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA_RADIO Also apt-get install pcmcia-cs. This runs the cardmgr daemon. Then edit your card settings in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and network.opts and /etc/network/interfaces. I pieced all this info together at the time and don't know if its any easier to get it working at this time. Two years ago the Orinoco Silver cost $40 and i got it because it was supposedly the _easiest_ card to setup in Linux. You can find them on ebay. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
