Re: Wireless network cards

if you have wireless_tools installed, you could try iwconfig and that
will tell you which network interfaces have wireless extensions
available.

On 6/6/05, Ryan Schiffbauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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