Re: Wireless network cards

as i said before, i think you need to create a hermes.conf file.  i
think i found exactly what i used to do with those cards.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=hermes.conf+fedora+core+4&btnG=Search

specifiically,

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread193-1.html


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 OK i got it working just fine.
What I had to do was the following:
1. Boot PC with the card not fitted.
2. loaded modules orinoco, orinoco_cs, hermes
3. Fit card, PC should beep.
4. tail -10 /var/log/messages and write down the 2 addresses after manfid
5. create /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf with the following in it.
device "orinoco_cs"
class "network"
module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
# LinkSys WPC11
card "Instant Wireless Network PC Card"
manfid 0x0274,0x1612 #Substitute your addresses here
bind "orinoco_cs"

6. restart pcmcia services - /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart 
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On 6/15/05, Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've just installed Fedora Core 4 on my laptop, hoping that this will
> resolve the issue with the wireless network card. However, I still can't
> get the Orinoco Gold card (18g/b) recognized by the system. Is there any
> standard procedure, gui-based or not, to get this card
> recognized/configured?
> 
> The output of iwconfig showed:
> [root@hp ~]# iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> Then I did modeprobe orinoco_cs as suggested before, and still
> the result is the same:
> 
> [root@hp ~]# lsmod | grep orinoco
> [root@hp ~]# modprobe orinoco_cs
> [root@hp ~]# lsmod | grep orinoco
> orinoco_cs             10825  0
> orinoco                53965  1 orinoco_cs
> hermes                  7233  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
> pcmcia                 29025  6 orinoco_cs,wavelan_cs
> pcmcia_core            50909  5
> orinoco_cs,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic,wavelan_cs,pcmcia
> [root@hp ~]# iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> 
> Andrei
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, JP Fielding wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Fedora Core 3
> >
> > I am in the process of searching the web for "hermes.conf fedora orinoco"
> > and I see some references to Kismet. Do I need that?
> >
> > Andrei
> >
> > >
> > > 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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