HOW-TO install Orinoco wireless driver

The Linux Orinoco Driver supports a wide range of wireless network interface cards implementing 802.11b standard.

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My system :
- Redhat 9 Linux with kernel 2.4.20
- Wireless card :“BUFFALO WLI-CF-S11G”.
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1. Download and compile "orinoco" wireless PCMCIA card driver.
Download site : http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco

# tar xvfz orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz
# cd orinoco-0.15rc2
# make all
# make install

# /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

2. Check the card type.

# cardctl ident
Socket 0: product info: "BUFFALO", "WLI-CF-S11G", "", ""
manfid: 0x026f, 0x030b
function: 6 (network)

3. Add following string inside the config file "/etc/pcmcia/config".

card "Buffalo WLI-CF-S11G"
manfid 0x026f, 0x030b
bind "orinoco_cs"

4. Restart PCMCIA

# /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

5. Check the list of installed modules, command : "lsmod" You can see module column "orinoco*"

# lsmod
....
orinoco_cs .........

6. THE END