Re: Wireless network cards

i think the hermes.conf file is on the right track, i still see
references to it on some random forums.  you might try searching your
distros resources for any reference to that.

for curiousity, which distro/version are you using?

On 6/7/05, JP Fielding <[email protected]> wrote:
> to be honest, it's been a long time since i had an orinocco card, but
> i remember that i had to do something odd and at the moment i can't
> remember what.  i'll look around and see if i see what i'm looking
> for.
> 
> just for reference, i had an old linksys 802.11b pcmcia card on a dell
> 8200 laptop running redhat 8,9 and fedora 1,2 back when i used that
> card.  i was using the gui tools, but i had to create a hermes.conf or
> something and throw it in some wireless directory.  i'll get back to
> you and see if that is true/still valid/useful.
> 
> On 6/7/05, Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Interestingly, when I tried the desktop tool (under Gnome):
> > Network Configuration -> Hardware -> Network Adapter
> >
> > I didn't see any Orinoco name present in the list of all the
> > adapters there. I tried some, like "PCMCIA wavelan_cs" and
> > "PCMCIA netwave_cs", but it did not configure anything -
> > and did not even show any error/warnings. It seem to finish
> > the configuration normally, but on subsequent restarts of the
> > "Network Configuration" tool it did not show any new hardware
> > profile added. I can't explain this behavior, and in fact I'd
> > prefer to have it done using command-line/shell scripts.
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Andrei
> >
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