Re: Wireless network cards

Hi Andrei,

Your card probably has a different interface name.  Run iwconfig and your 
interface name should come up (it won't be "eth0" or "lo"). 

If that doesn't work, let us know and we'll get to the bottom of it.

Ryan


On Monday 06 June 2005 21:41, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> 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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