Problems with Lucent Wavelan (Orinoco) card on laptop

[Mats Brorsson]

I have problems getting Fedora core 1 to activate my wireless LAN adapter.
It's a Lucent Wavelan Silver, now known as Orinoco Silver, card. In bets
case, nothing really happens, in most cases it hangs the system totally. My
machine is a Packard Bell EasyNote M5 laptop.

I'm new to Linux and don't really know where to start looking for a
solution.

Any ideas on how to solve this are appreciated.

Mats