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From: David Gibson (davidgibson.dropbear.id.au)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 16:42:13 CST

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    On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:39:41AM -0500, Cindy Wong wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm new to the list and Linux. In fact I have only installed Mandrake
    > 8.1 on an older computer. The computer has MELCO's WLI-PCM-L11 and
    > WLI-PCI-OP installed. The access point is Orinoco RG-1000. Everything
    > works fine except for the wireless card. In fact, Mandrake could detect
    > the card and loads driver wvlan_cs for it. However, networking doesn't
    > work. When I run dhcpcd, it spills out hte message:
    >
    > wvlan_cs: eth0 timed out! Resetting card
    >
    > iwconfig showed that the card could detect the AP, although only at 2Mbps.
    >
    > I tried using the orinoco_cs driver instead, but with this driver I
    > couldn't even set the essid and it couldn't detect the AP.

    How did you attempt to set the essid? What error messages did you
    see? 

    -- 
David Gibson			| For every complex problem there is a
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				| wrong.  -- H.L. Mencken
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