PCI wireless card not detected

Hello,

I am new to linux.
Anyway I recently installed Fedora core 3. I have a netgear 311 pci wireless
card
however it does not seem to exist.
The only network device that when logged into Fedora is my integrated
realtek ethernet card
However I only use a wireless internet connection from my machine.

How can I configure my wireless card in Fedora?
I check the netgear website and they only have windows drivers

thanks
Zimran

Zimran Douglas wrote:

> Anyway I recently installed Fedora core 3. I have a netgear 311 pci
> wireless card
> however it does not seem to exist.

What do you mean by "it does not exist"?
What does "cardctl ident" say?

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> What do you mean by "it does not exist"?
It means that it is as if the card is still in the manufacturers box in a
wharehouse
somewhere waiting to be shipped to retailers.

> What does "cardctl ident" say?
I don't know.

Zimran Douglas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Anyway I recently installed Fedora core 3. I have a netgear 311 pci wireless
> card
> however it does not seem to exist.
> The only network device that when logged into Fedora is my integrated
> realtek ethernet card
> However I only use a wireless internet connection from my machine.

Recently installed RedHat Enterprise Linux (not exactly Fedora,
but rather similar still) on a computer with Netgear MA311 card
(it also has 100Base-T NIC, which is left unconfigured). After
installation two lines were added into /etc/modules.conf file:

alias eth0 ... <-- wireline NIC
alias eth1 orinoco_pci <-- MA311

The lsmod command shows the following kernel modules loaded:

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
orinoco_pci 4132 1
orinoco 38348 0 [orinoco_pci]
hermes 7940 0 [orinoco_pci orinoco]

The /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file contains the
following variables (for statically assigned IP address):

DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:09:5B:41:55:44
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.10.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.10.254
#
MODE=Managed
ESSID=**********
NWID=**********
KEY=**************************

Commands which might be helpfull - iwconfig and ifconfig.

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