[ale] Gentoo and 802.11b

[Bao C. Ha]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:30:09PM -0400, Randy Janinda wrote:

Hi Randy,

> Check the /etc/pcmcia/config for your card. You may need/want to change
> the module from orinoco_cs to wvlan_cs. I ended doing this for my SMC
> card under Gentoo.

I thought the SMC is Prism2-based, not Lucent-based as the
Orinoco.  I have no problem using iwconfig to set the ESSID
of orinoco cards.  However, other drivers may not be fully
compliance with the Linux wireless toolkit.

Bao

> 
> Randy Janinda
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 12:21, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > I'm trying to get my Compaq laptop running Gentoo. I
> > can boot fine, and bring up PCMCIA services and
> > cardmgr. But it insists on using the orinoco_cs
> > driver for my LAN card instead of the wvlan_cs
> > driver that I use under Slack. That would be fine,
> > except that I need to set the ESSID, and I have
> > no man page for the orinoco_cs driver that would
> > tell me how to do that. With wvlan_cs, the
> > module parm "network_name" does it, but orinoco_cs
> > won't recognize that parm. Anyone know how to
> > set the ESSID for the orinoco driver?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -- Joe
> > 
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