Orinoco and RH 7.2: close but no cigar

[Pavel Roskin]

Hi, Mike!

> But I can't ping anything, not even a local box on the lan. "ifconfig" and
> "route" show only the lo interface. It seems like the card and driver are
> working but has no ip address or route. How are these assigned to a wireless
> card?

"ifconfig -a" shows all interfaces, even those which are down.  You should 
set the IP address and the netmask on the interface and bring it down.

Most likely, you should just run a DHCP client of your choice: pump, 
dhclient, or dhcpcd.  RedHat 7.2 has pump installed as /sbin/pump.

> Am I correct in assuming it's almost working? Hoping to get this working
> without recompiling the kernel or installing a new pcmcia package or
> orinoco_cs. The laptop has no network connection other than floppy_net.
> Think I read in this list's archives that this should work. All help
> appreciated. Have RTFM, all that I can find, but still in the dark.

The hardware is working already if you have a non-zero link quality.  You 
just need to set up the network on the IP level.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin