[olug] Wireless card for Dell 8100

[Jon H. Larsen]

I got a Siemens Speedstream SS1021 from Office Depot for $40.  The box 
even has Linux listed on the side.  You need to make add entries to 
/etc/pcmcia/config and /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf (if you have the wlan-ng 
packages installed).  The card is an 802.11b type.

Here is what I added to my /etc/pcmcia/config file:

card "Siemens SpeedStream Wireless PCMCIA"
  version "Siemens", "SpeedStream Wireless PCMCIA", "Version 01.02", ""
  manfid 0x02ac, 0x0002
  bind "orinoco_cs"

The version and manfid strings will appear in /var/log/messages when you 
insert the card.  Just make sure what you enter into the 'config' matches 
what appears in the message log.

Jon L.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Scott Evans wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:31:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Scott Evans <munkey1979 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Wireless card for Dell 8100
> 
> I finally got Red Hat working on my Dell inspiron 8100
> after a day and a half of messing with XF86config. 
> Now I want to get a wireless card for this baby.  Just
> wanted to get some opinions on a good wireless card
> for this type of laptop and that will work great with
> Red Hat 8.0. 
> 
> Im thinking either 802.11a or g.  not sure yet
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Scott
> 
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