I have a sony vaio wireless lan that works perfectly on the windows
side of my dual boot panasonic toughbook but not at all at the desktop
lx (linux) side. What do I do?
Thank you. 
(Please answer at loosecaboose@radicalz.com -- it's more reliable than
my attbi email. Many thanks! Amy)

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Request for Question Clarification by seizer-ga on 13 Nov 2002 11:08 PST

Hi there.

Would it be possible to let us know what type of wireless LAN card
you're using? For instance, is it a PCMCIA or a USB one? If you can
find the model number, all the better!

Thanks,

--seizer-ga

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Clarification of Question by loosecaboose-ga on 13 Nov 2002 12:47 PST

Sony PCWA-c100 WIRELESS LAN PC CARD 
nO. 3006873. 

S/N: 01ut12369631

mac ADDRESS : 08004605110

ENCRYPTION: wep

fcc ID: imrwlpce24H

cANADA 230-391-152a

mODEL NO.: oRINOCO pc CARD

WEIRD FOREIGN SYMBOLS, THEN 3892B510

, THEN ce (WEIRD E) 0122 , THEN ! INSIDE CIRCLE. MORE WEIRD LANGUAGER:
R ON SQUARE, nycA0010

T IN SQUARE, d99-1057 jp 

5V 16 (WHATEVER CHECK BOX IS NEXT TO VOLTAGE). 

oH, EXCUSE MY IGNORANCE -- SHOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED SYMBOL. it SAYS
RIGHT THERE, MADE IN

tAIWAN. 

mANY THANKS, 

aMY 

ps -- IF YOU CAN ANSWER THIS ONE FOR ME, BOY, DO i HAVE ANOTHER ONE. i
HATE WINDOWS (TOO

MANY KLEZ VIRUSES) AND HAVE AD/HD AND DYSLEXIA AND FIND mac
(supposedly easy) impossible.I

have been trying to reformat my g/4 (bought on credit out of sheer
exasperation with

Panasonic Sissy Tough-book) for an entire month, day and night, to
accept either Mandrake or

Suse -- but no luck. 

I did, however, finally install Yellow Dog (now erased) -- and boy,
did they pick the right

name for that O/S! 
(Hiya SEizer-ga -- this is everything I could possibly find about
hardware and you're a dear for responding so quickly!

Amy

Hi there.

I can only find one reference to your wireless PCMCIA card working
with Linux.

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=1036355528.949.7.camel%40hamlet

As you can see, the poster suggests that it will work with the
"Orinoco Driver". Unfortunately, since I'm not running Lycoris
Desktop/LX myself, I can't give you any more detailed instructions, so
I'll leave this comment for any other researchers who may wish to take
up the task.

Have you tried Red Hat or Suse Linux? They both tend to have better
driver support out of the box than some other distibutions.

Best of luck,

--seizer-ga