Changing from orinoco driver to wlan or hostap driver

I'm using a D-Link W650 pcmcia card (prism2) on my Toshiba Satellite
laptop running RH9. By default it uses the orinoco and orinoco_cs
drivers. Buth this driver won't do scanning. From what I can tell, the
wlan-ng and hostap drivers do. But I don't know how switch to either of
these (after I install the packages). I can't find where the orinoco
drivers are loaded. Any suggestions will be appreciated. I've tried
loading FC2 on the laptop but the pcmcia slot becomes inoperable. I
would like to try FC3 but don't want to have to re-intall RH9 again if
FC3 has the same problems with the pcmcia card slot.

Rick B.

Rick Bilonick wrote:

> I'm using a D-Link W650 pcmcia card (prism2) on my Toshiba Satellite
> laptop running RH9. By default it uses the orinoco and orinoco_cs
> drivers. Buth this driver won't do scanning. From what I can tell, the
> wlan-ng and hostap drivers do. But I don't know how switch to either of
> these (after I install the packages). I can't find where the orinoco
> drivers are loaded. Any suggestions will be appreciated. I've tried
> loading FC2 on the laptop but the pcmcia slot becomes inoperable. I
> would like to try FC3 but don't want to have to re-intall RH9 again if
> FC3 has the same problems with the pcmcia card slot.

I'm no expert, but as I understand it
the driver used is determined by the entry in /etc/pcmcia/config
which assigns a driver to each card.
(Note that any file *.conf in this directory is read after config,
and takes priority, so you could just add your own file,
or edit config .)


--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland