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December 31st, 2003 19:00
PCMCIA cards that run in linux
I just got the Inspiron 5150 for Christmas and have spent most of my time up till now trying to get the TrueMobile 1300 to work (tried both the NDISWRAPPER and DriverLoader, neither of which worked (though both thought they had done everything fine).
So to try and wrap it up a little faster, does anyone know of a PCMCIA card that works reliable in Linux (I'm using Fedora Core 1)? All I really need it to be able to do is "b".
So to try and wrap it up a little faster, does anyone know of a PCMCIA card that works reliable in Linux (I'm using Fedora Core 1)? All I really need it to be able to do is "b".
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anglete
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December 31st, 2003 19:00
press fn-f2, and magically watch your linuxant truemobile 1300 work =)
JersWork
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January 1st, 2004 03:00
I have watched the Lucent/Orinoco/Agere 802.11b silver and gold cards working under Redhat 7.x through Redhat 9.0. I have also seen the Dell TrueMobile 1150 card working under Linux, but it was a re-branded Lucent/Orinoco card anyway, so that didn't surprise me...
If you don't mind wired networking, I have used a 3Com 3C575 card under several Redhat releases as well...
curtiscartmell
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January 4th, 2004 22:00
Hi...
actually... you should pick up a TrueMobile 1150 mini-pci card for your laptop and replace your 1300 Broadcom chip. The 1150 is a dell branded Orinoco gold card and will auto-detect with Linux with standard orinoco drivers.
I could help you setup your 1300 with NDISwrapper if you want... I'm using the truemobile 1180 with ndiswrapper and it works great... I still haven't got it to automatically load yet... but I need to just type a couple commands in console when I boot up and I'm wireless again. By the way... do you need to only surf the net or are you trying to connect to a windows network in Linux?
Your best (and easiest) solution of course is to pick-up a truemobile 1150 like this one at eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3068911302
this one is branded Lucent (but is the exact same as the TrueMobile 1150) You can also download the truemobile 1150 drivers from DELL.COM for use in XP too.