There are two flavors of orinoco stuff. The original that was created by Lucent/Agere (ie, Bell Labs) and then the changed-to-be-proprietary crap by Proxim when Lucent sold the brand name "Orinoco" to them. The Proxim stuff is crap (IMHO), but the Lucent stuff is first-class in hardware and software (worked there, know some of the troops, etc). I use a Dell Truemobile 1150 802.11b PCMCIA card which was made by Lucent and is identical to the earlier Lucent Orinoco stuff. Had to go to a Dell and/or Lucent site to get the right stuff. The drivers from Proxim are NOT compatible under either Windoze or Linux, as I recall. I'd say DO NOT BUY any Orinoco that might have the Proxim name (big brown letters) even if the chip foundry may still be Lucent/Agere. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jeffery Rasmussen > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 2:21 PM > To: 'TCLUG Mailing List' > Subject: RE: [TCLUG] New member - Mandrake 10.0 pcmcia wireless card > quest ion > > > > I am using a Prism 2.x chipset USB wireless device with Debian. It was a > pain to set up but I found that the orinoco drivers were not compatable. I > had to use the linux-wlan-ng drivers (http://www.linux-wlan.org/). As part > of my installation, I modified the hotplug configuration files to > automatically load the prism2_usb driver when hotplug detected it. > > I would guess that you are having module issues and if you find the right > module then the rest will fall into place. > > Jeff Rasmussen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Cooper [mailto:coop0030 at hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:57 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] New member - Mandrake 10.0 pcmcia wireless card > question > > > Hello, > I am a new member to the TCLUG. I never even knew that there was a local > Linux users group until a couple of days ago. Hopefully I will be able to > attend the next meeting. > > Onto my question... > I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Compaq Presario 2105US laptop (not the > best piece of computing machinery...) and I am having difficulty with my > PCMCIA wireless card. It is a Netgear MA401ra card. The second I put it in > > my computer Linux does a hard freeze, and I have to reboot.... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list