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 , Pavel Roskin > , et al) > orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson , Pavel > Roskin , 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss