Problems w/ wireless

[Erik Bågfors]

I used a orinoco gold card years ago (in debian) and that has always
worked, in fact, I still have it.  If you can't get it to work, mail
me and I'll try it out here.

Regards,
Erik


On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:37:01 -0400, Ryan Donahue
<csu18796 at mail.claytonstate.net> wrote:
> I have been trying to get my Dell Inspiron 2650 online over wireless w/
> ubuntu for a while but haven't had any luck.  I have an orinoco gold
> pcmcia card that I tried but ubuntu won't pick it up.  When I run
> "cardinfo" I am told that the card is an unsupported card.  I booted
> into knoppix and even that didn't pick the card up.
> 
> A friend of mine has the netgear ma401 card that has worked on most
> distros that he has used so he let me borrow that.  With the netgear I
> actually get the link light to come on on the card but card still
> doesn't get detected.  iwconfig or cardinfo neither come up w/
> anything.  If I boot into knoppix, the netgear works just fine and
> connects right away.    If I run cardinfo in knoppix, cardinfo picks up
> the card just fine.  Anyone have any ideas what might be going on?
> 
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