Description of Problem: linksys instant wireless card dump_cis - pertinent info below: vers_1 5.0, "Instant Wireless ", " Network PC CARD", "Version 01.02", the linksys wireless card will not work with the orinoco_cs drivers. It needs the wvlan_cs drivers to work correctly. it comes up as an Intersil PRISM2 card editing /etc/pcmcia/config and changing the bind entry for: card "Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter" to wvlan_cs fixes the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.1.27-14 How Reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. loadup beta2 2. insert linksys wireless card Actual Results: it blinks impolitely at you :) Expected Results: it should blink pleasingly as it passes packets.
Mine actually worked, but the throughput was very low (15 minutes to download 10Mb file) and my network was saturated with packets -- collisions and all that fun. Switching to wvlan_cs worked very well. Also -- same problem exists when installing. The installer tries to load orinoco_cs but fails. Probably should be fixed there as well.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62317 I'm sorry, this one is my fault. Apparently my SMC2632 802.11b card also identifies as Intersil PRISM2, but it absolutely refuses to work with the wvlan driver. Unfortunately it *sorta* works with orinoco_cs albeit with massive packet loss. I also own the SMC2602, which is a SMC2632 card in a PLX PCI adapter. This machine is running with 100% success and zero packet loss with the orinoco_plx driver. wvlan_cs does NOT WORK for my Intersil PRISM2 card, but I guess reverting back to wvlan_cs should be done because orinoco_cs isn't a good solution for anyone either. You were running 100% with wvlan_cs on your PRISM2?
Yah. Mine was working great with wvlan_cs. I think the intersil cards are subtley different despite being mostly the same.
Please revert Intersil Prism2 back to wvlan_cs driver.
agreed; done.