FC3 on Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 Laptop?

[Rick Bilonick]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 00:35, Rick Bilonick wrote:
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>>The D-Link DWL-650 that I have is a Prism II card. It uses the orinoco 
>>and orinoco_cs drivers. I could also use the wlan-ng or the hostap 
>>drivers as far as I know but I've not tried them. (These drivers support 
>>scanning.)
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>>What concerns me is that the pcmcia slot did not appear to function at 
>>all. I tried putting in a modem card and the wireless card and there was 
>>no beep to indicate that a card had been inserted into the pcmcia slot. 
>>I'm concerned that the pcmcia slot may not be supprted as it is in RH9.
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>>To get your DWL-G650 to work in FC2, did you have to install manually 
>>any drivers or is it all included in FC2?
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>>Rick B.
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>I believe if your card uses the orinoco drivers then you should be set. 
>I think those have been well supported for some time.
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>I had to manually install the prism54 drivers at that time.  I think
>they are included in FC3 now although you may still have to install the
>firmware for the card.  Note: not all versions of the DWL-G650 uses that
>chip set.
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>After you put in the card use the lspci command to see if the system
>sees the card.  Honestly I don't think my system beeps when I remove or
>insert the card.  
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>Also check your log files, I think there should be some entries there
>when you do insert the card.
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When you say firmware  for the card, do you mean you have to install 
code into the card? (I've heard of updating firmware in certain types of 
hardware.) I was thinking of buying a DWL G650 to increase the 
connection speed.

Rick B.