Orinoco Gold Wireless card in Linux RH 7.2

[andrey]

Has anybody been able to successfully configure ORiNOCO Gold PCMCIA Card in Linux. Documentation which comes with drivers is the most confusing documentation I've seen. For example it states:

4.3 Configure your ORiNOCO PC Card

1) To configure the ORiNOCO PC Card, please refer to:
* The online manual page (wavelan2_cs.4)
% man wavelan2_cs
* The network adapter sections of the PCMCIA
documentation.
% more PCMCIA-HOWTO

2) Use an editor to configure the module parameters:
# vi /etc/pcmcia/config.opts

3) Use an editor to modify the network options for your
adapter.
# vi /etc/pcmcia/network.opts

4) Restart the PCMCIA services.
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

Well, that's fine for Orinico's people who wrote entire driver, but the section below doesn't do that much for me:

1) To configure the ORiNOCO PC Card, please refer to:
* The online manual page (wavelan2_cs.4)
% man wavelan2_cs

Well, at this point I receive one high beep and one low beep, which means that the card is detected, but is not configured correctly. What should be the next step, since "% man wavelan2_cs" only tells the theory about the card, but not the steps on how to configure it. If there is a place where I can find additional instructions or if anybody have any suggestion, I'll greatly appreciate that. Thank you in advance!

 

[TonyRic]

The card is being detected and (probably) the drivers are being properly installed. Do an /sbin/lsmod to verify the orinoco drivers are being loaded. Then edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and find the section (First specific one I believe) and edit it for your network settings, ESSID and Keys specifically. Then run /etc/init.d/pcmcia as root and also after that /etc/init.d/network.

Then do an /sbin/ifconfig eth0 and see if you have an IP Address, if not then set it to a static IP.

 

[manly]

TonyRic gave good directions.

I just wanted to add that you probably want to use the newer open-source orinoco_cs drivers (which come bundled with the Linux kernel).

I believe the wavelan drivers are old ones published by Lucent.