Hi all, hope the BBQ went well, sorry I couldn't come (I was picking up
my Brother-In-Law at Logan...sigh, one day I'll get to a meeting).
I've got a netgear wifi card that works great in Mandrake Linux, with
the exception of wep (I know, it's cracked). In doing some research on
the card and the kernel module that loads wvlan_cs, I have found out
that this module has been replaced (by and large) by orinoco_cs, which I
understand to be more functional (i.e. maybe I can get wep working?). I
tried modprobe -r wvlan_cs and modprobe orinoco_cs but it won't bind to
my pcmcia card. So I figured, "Well, maybe my card is just one that
can't use the newer driver..." WRONG!
Just to see what it was like, I download Knoppix, burned it onto a cd,
and booted it up. Guess what driver loaded? orinoco_cs!! And it
worked well too.
Well, since Knoppix is a cd-boot, run in memory distro; I'm not changing
to it anytime soon. So I'm going to use this opportunity to learn
something new. How can I bind the orinoco driver to my card?
Wes
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