[MLB-WIRELESS] Help for Linux newbie

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where are you located?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Weeties" <tymmo at adsl.on.net>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Help for Linux newbie


> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry if this is really baneful for most of you.
>
> This has been an ongoing project to link 3 houses in my street.
> What I'd like to know is: Can anyone point me to a link to download the
> Linux driver/kernel for an orinoco_cs card for Mandrake (If that
matters?),
> and a brief on how to install it?
>
> At the moment, the card works in the Linux box and can connect thru 98
> running ICS to a server.
> But I can't replace the 98 box with the Linux because the only card
> configured is the
> 10/100 i.e. the wireless card works by magic. The wireless card is loaded
by
> default as an Orinoco_cs,
> Vendor:Intersil Prism2. I know there's more I have to do (from the mail
> list) but can't remember where I saw it. Something to do with
/etc/something
> When the card is in my XPpro it is seen as a Cabletron 40 bit WEP, Primary
> Firmware
> Var1 Vers4, Station Firmware Var2 Vers8.10
>
> I installed Mandrake 9.1 yesterday on a 300Mhz, 1.2G system. It is big
> enough and it runs and will be sitting in my roof. This is my second
attempt
> at running linux and this time a lot more successful. Although I know
stuff
> all about Linux, the graphic interface is friendly and I know my way
around
> PCs and (to some degree) networks.
> I could use XP, but that's worth 300 times the computer and I need another
3
> copies!  (to get the updates) Win98 worked OK on 1 sys, but I've been
unable
> to link 2 98's together, and even the one that works, the client says it's
> not!
> (driver/firmware/client or something) I own XPpro, ME, 98 and 95 but I'd
> rather use Linux 'cause that's all you guys talk about...stability,
> security, etc, etc, and it's freeware? I could buy some cheap AP's but
> what's the fun in that.
>
> I have googled but I just got lost in the Lintrex. There is a lot out
there
> but I
> don't know which is what and who was where and why I asked the question in
> the first place.Then realised I's already supposed to know, huh?
>
> The plan is to link these 3 to get interest and for fun, then maybe more,
> and ultimately join
> the mesh up the track. The terrain here is the limiting issue, though, so,
> the more locals the better. I'm in a depression (in more ways than one,
this
> has
> taken many months to end up at the same spot, just with another operating
> system)
>
> Any help is OK: lawnmowing, ironing, how to clean up after myself,
> dishwashing
> budget keeping, finding free beer/money (same currency, yes?), head
therapy,
> no etc!
>
> Thanks and Cheers
> Tim
>
>
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