Wireless PCMCIA Suggestions?

tweekd · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

I've been trying for some time now to get my Orinoco Gold pcmcia wireless card working with gentoo without success. The kernel modules consistently hang the system and orinoco-sn fails to merge (bug #209474, been around since 2/0

. Anyway, I'm ready to give up on this thing. Can anyone recommend a wireless pcmcia device that they currently have working with a 2.6.24 kernel? I'm really anxious to un-tether this laptop.

no_hope · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 482

Checkout http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
Also, pretty much any card by Ubiquiti should work

deathcon1 · Apprentice Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 182 Location: Canada

I just picked up a D-Link DWA652, detected as an Atheros, just trying to get PCMCIA going on my machine.

Raptor85 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 208

Strange that the orinoco doesn't work. Have you tried using the vanilla kernel instead of the gentoo patched one? I can't check from here and I can't get into the bug tracker to see what that bug you posted is, but I use a Orinoco gold 802.11b card in my thinkpad with gentoo and I've never had issues with it. (I run vanilla kernel though, so that may be the difference)