[ale] Gentoo and 802.11b

[Randy Janinda]

You are correct about it being Prism2. I am by far, NOT a wireless guru.
I have gotten this particular card working using various drivers and
what-not and can't remember all the combinations. Right now my setup
(lsmod) shows:

orinoco_cs              4264   1 
orinoco                31808   0  [orinoco_cs]
hermes                  3360   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]

When I get more time I will play with the other drivers and see if there
is any difference.

Thanks,

Randy


On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:35, Bao C. Ha wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:30:09PM -0400, Randy Janinda wrote:
> 
> Hi Randy,
> 
> > Check the /etc/pcmcia/config for your card. You may need/want to change
> > the module from orinoco_cs to wvlan_cs. I ended doing this for my SMC
> > card under Gentoo.
> 
> I thought the SMC is Prism2-based, not Lucent-based as the
> Orinoco.  I have no problem using iwconfig to set the ESSID
> of orinoco cards.  However, other drivers may not be fully
> compliance with the Linux wireless toolkit.
> 
> Bao
> 
> > 
> > Randy Janinda
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 12:21, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> > > Hey folks,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get my Compaq laptop running Gentoo. I
> > > can boot fine, and bring up PCMCIA services and
> > > cardmgr. But it insists on using the orinoco_cs
> > > driver for my LAN card instead of the wvlan_cs
> > > driver that I use under Slack. That would be fine,
> > > except that I need to set the ESSID, and I have
> > > no man page for the orinoco_cs driver that would
> > > tell me how to do that. With wvlan_cs, the
> > > module parm "network_name" does it, but orinoco_cs
> > > won't recognize that parm. Anyone know how to
> > > set the ESSID for the orinoco driver?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > -- Joe
> > > 
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