Re: Office Max $19 Microsoft adaptors

Using Fedora 2. Did you configure the adaptor as a network device? I
will admit that I used the Gui to do the basic config. Once it was
recognized, I set it up as wlan0. I was able to enter most of the info.
Most important is to make sure the ESSID is ok. Look in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Note that this fill is hard linked to
two others on RedHatish systems:

[root@mister sysconfig]# find . -name '*eth0' -print
./network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
./networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
./networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0

so do NOT delete one, then replace it without fixing the links!

Hope this helps

Also, we might do a Friday on Wireless after I get out of this hell
hole. Dee, wanna give it a go?

Jim

Justin Dieters wrote:
> Jim, what distro/kernel are you using? Anything special you had to do to
> get it to work?
>
> I'm using Redhat 9.0, kernel 2.4.20, and all I get is:
> unsupported card in socket 0
> product info: "Microsoft", "Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520", "", "1.0.3"
> manfid: 0x02d2, 0x0001 function: 6 (network)
>
> The lights come on and everything, but I can't get anything from
> ifconfig. I can do "modprobe orinoco_cs" just fine, no errors aside
> from what's listed above.
>
> Justin
>
>
>
> Jim wrote:
>
>> Risked the $19. The one I got has the Linux friendly Orinoco chip set.
>> Might want to get em fast. They are all the way to the right on the
>> discount table in the front of the store!
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>> Jun 26 18:46:03 mister cardmgr[1133]: socket 1: Microsoft Wireless
>> Notebook Adapter MN-520 1.0.3
>> Jun 26 18:46:04 mister cardmgr[1133]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs
>> 2>&1'
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Received on Mon Jun 28 18:43:30 2004