Orinoco 11b/g PC Card Gold

bukspoon · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: Orinoco 11b/g PC Card Gold

I just installed Gentoo on a Sony Laptop. I was wonder if anyone had any tips or instructions on setting up the forementioned wireless card?

The card is model: 8470-WD

Also, just wanted to say that this forum is awsome. I did my firast Gentoo install last week and with the help of several members here. So thanks for the help!!!

CompNerd · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:43 am Post subject:

Do you have orinoco and hermes drivers built-in (or as modules) in your kernel? Hopefully it will pick up the card. Perhaps you could give the manufacturer of the card?

CompNerd

bukspoon · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:48 am Post subject:

Its a Proxim card. When I did then kernel I just choose all wireless options. Not sure that was smart??????????

CompNerd · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:01 am Post subject:

Can you please post the output from lspci -v (lspci is part of pciutils), as it seems that the 8470-WD may be an atheros based chipset. In that case you may have to look to either the madwifi drivers or ndiswrapper.

CompNerd

LamboAlpha · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 12

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: PROXIM Inc: Unknown device 0a40
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at 20800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

CompNerd · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:42 am Post subject:

That is definitely an atheros chipset based card. You should check if madwifi supports it, otherwise you may have no choice but to use ndiswrapper.

Sorry.

CompNerd