Re: Wireless network cards

I bought the Orinoco gold card as you suggested and just plugged it in and 
run the command as you said below, but the result was negative:

[root@hp ~]# ifconfig ath0 up
ath0: unknown interface: No such device

The "power" indicator on the card is blinking green. The "network" 
indicator is not showing anything. But there's no wireless netowrk is here 
at the moment. I have Fedora core 3 on my laptop.

Any suggestions?

Andrei

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ryan Schiffbauer wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
> 
> With GNU/Linux, the Orinoco (Gold?) cards are always best.  They're 
> manufactured now by a company Proxim and they make a 802.11 b/g model.  My 
> laptop has bad-to-nonexistent support under linux for the built-in card, so I 
> bought one of these Orinoco cards on eBay for pretty cheap a couple weeks ago 
> and it works GREAT.  You'll find several on eBay, or just type "orinoco gold" 
> into Froogle.
> 
> Just pop it in then run "ifconfig ath0 up" and then "dhclient ath0" and you're 
> off and running.  I just did it this morning at the Moose.
> 
> You can also get them with external antenna connections if you're into 
> wardriving, etc.  But the internal antenna is pretty good.  I was surfing on 
> Panera's hotspot today from the Eat N Park parking lot.  :)
> 
> That being said, I understand that kernel support has recently been added for 
> the Intel Centrino chips.  My brother has one in his laptop and he said it 
> works find under gnu/linux right out of the box.
> 
> Support for most other cards is sketchy as best, as I understand it.  I've 
> never had any luck with other cards, as they tend only to have Mac/Windoze 
> support.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 15:18, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> > I need to buy a wireless network card for my HP laptop. I looked around
> > and all the time I only see Windows listed under supported OS, and no
> > Linux mentioned at all. Can it be the situation like was early on with
> > modems, that some cards will require special Windows and only work on
> > Windows? Or are they all Linux compatible?
> >
> > I'm looking at PCMCIA, 802.11b/g
> >
> > Does any one know of any deals? Or maybe can suggest a good vendor?
> >
> > Andrei
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