FC5 - Wireless networking with MN-520

incan705 · #1 5th June 2006, 07:21 PM

Hi folks,

I am running Fedora Core 5. I have the Microsoft MN-520 wireless adapter in the pcmcia slot and my router is Microsoft MN-500. I guess MN-520 uses the prism chipset. From various other sources this card supposedly works with both orinoco_cs and prism_cs.

The card is being correctly detected as eth1 (my ethernet card is eth0). ifconfig shows both eth0 and eth1. But I am unable to connect to the wireless network. The connection requires a WEP key.

I used the NetworkManager gui to configure the wireless connection and when I try to activate it fails to determine the IP.

I am a linux newbie and not sure if this card is suppported out of the box or do I have to install drivers for this.

I googled a lot and in earlier releases of fedora a lot of people were able to get this working out of the box by adding this in the /etc/pcmcia/config under the wireless adapter section

Code:

card "Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520 1.0.3"
  manfid 0x02d2, 0x0001
  bind "orinoco_cs"

But in FC5 I only see a config.opts and it has no wireless adapter section.

Any help is greatly appreciated