From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: My Dell Inspiron has a builtin 802.11b card, the Dell TrueMobile 1150 MiniPCI card. It is a rebadged Wavelan / Orinoco / Agere card. On Red Hat Linux 8.0 and in Phoebe, by default the wvlan_cs is loaded and used. It should replaced with orinoco_cs by default. Read the following from: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html#drivers ================= We are in the process of phasing out gradually wvlan_cs in favor of orinoco_cs, which has all the features of the former without the bugs. We are recommending people doing a new installation to start directly with orinoco_cs. Why would you use orinoco_cs ? A few reasons : * Full source code. Some people strongly beleive in the concept of Free Software and Open Source, especially when it come to stuff that reside in kernel space. * Not only for i386 platforms. Can be made to work on PPC, Alpha, StrongArm, ia64 and your favourite platform (doesn't mean that it will work out of the box). * Multi configuration, using Pcmcia schemes and wireless.opts (see below). This may be also achieved using the specific networking scripts of some distributions. * Much better Wireless Extension support. * Signal strength in ad-hoc mode (see below). * Multi-firmware (1.16 -> 6.16) and multi-vendor (Lucent, Enterasys & ELSA) support. * Some Prism2 and Symbol card support... =============== In /etc/pcmcia/config change occurances of wvlan_cs to orinoco_cs. For example: card "Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter" manfid 0x0156, 0x0002 bind "wvlan_cs" to card "Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter" manfid 0x0156, 0x0002 bind "orinoco_cs"
Changed, will be in 0.64-1