Thanks for the hints and tips, Jim! There are a few things in there I haven't
tried. I assumed that because the card showed up in lspci (and because its
called a mini pci card!), that it isn't sitting on a pci bridge. However, I
will try setting it up through pcmcia and see if that helps. Its a job for
tomorrow though! I've just got home from work, and its evening here in the
UK!
I did try to set it up through Yast2, but yast reported it as "unrecognised".
I went through the motions anyway, filling in blank information where I
thought appropriate, but it certainly wasn't auto-detected!
I'll have another go - maybe try the rc2 drivers - and try some of the things
you've suggested. Here's hoping.........!
--
Pete
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On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 19:26, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Peter Christy wrote:
> > I've recently purchased an AMD64 powered laptop which contains an Agere
> > mini PCI 0508 wlan system built in.
> >
> > All my research indicates that this is a Hermes device of some kind, but
> > the Orinoco driver doesn't seem to support it - at least, I can get the
> > driver to load, but not to recognise the card!
>
> In the Dell Inspiron 4100, the mini-PCI wireless card is on a PCMCIA bridge
> and appears to be in slot 2, where 0 and 1 are the externally accessible
> slots. Do you have the PCMCIA (cardmgr) daemon running with
> /etc/pcmcia/*.conf mentioning your card's PCI ID and/or MANFID?
> orinoco.conf from the driver distro has stanzas for a lot of cards, plus
> there's documentation somewhere if your card isn't there.
>
> Of course other vendors, like yours, may use a real PCI bridge.
>
> The Orinoco driver uses eth$N by default rather than wlan$N. The very old
> Wavelan driver uses wlan$N, and possibly wlan-ng (not for Orinoco). If
> you've told YaST2 to call the card wlan0, that may be confusing it. You
> did use YaST2's wireless setup module, right? Not so flexible if you have
> to run your card both at home and at work, but when only a single wireless
> net is involved it's quite good. It did find the VIA Rhine NIC for wired
> Ethernet -- good.
>
> Both the SuSE-supplied module (orinoco-0.11) and 0.15rc1 should do fine, if
> you aren't picky about the nuances of scanning support, AP selection, etc.
>
> Hope some of this helps!
>
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