Re: wifi trouble

IIRC Orinoco sold a card with their brand, that used a Prism chipset.

Mike Hoy spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get my netgear ma401 802.11b PCMCIA wifi card working.
>
> it worked under slackware. I'm confused if this is a orinoco chipset or
> prism
>
> here is what's confusing me:
>
> dmesg:
> [most of it snipped just pasting the part relevant to this card]
> cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin
> <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
> orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel
> Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
> eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
> eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6
> eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> eth1: MAC address 00:09:5B:23:3B:D6
> eth1: Station name "Prism I"
> eth1: ready
> eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
>
>
> at the top of the message it shows orinoco 0.13...
> and at the bottom it calls eth1: Station name "Prism I"
>
> Anyone know what this means?
>
> When I put the card in and try to use KWIFI manager it shows a picture
> of the pcmcia card with a ? question mark going thru it as if it is
> unrecognized. of course i do not connect. Also it just occurred to me
> that I juse gnome and this is a KDE utility. should i be using something
> else when in Gnome for wifi management. in any case ifconfig shows i'm
> not connected.
>
>
> mike hoy
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