WPC11 v2.5 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 2.6.9

Recently I tried to follow a tutorial
http://linux.oldcrank.com/tips/wpc11/ to setup my Wireless WPC11 card
on my Linux laptop. However, at the point where I try to add a network
device, I could not find "Lucent Orinoco and Prism II-based PCMCIA
Wireless" in the adapter menu. I did follow all the previous steps
faithfully, and I am stuck on this step.

???

I know this may be a newbish question, but any help is greatly
appreciated :)

andrew-lee@comcast.net wrote:
> Recently I tried to follow a tutorial
> http://linux.oldcrank.com/tips/wpc11/ to setup my Wireless WPC11 card
> on my Linux laptop. However, at the point where I try to add a network
> device, I could not find "Lucent Orinoco and Prism II-based PCMCIA
> Wireless" in the adapter menu. I did follow all the previous steps
> faithfully, and I am stuck on this step.
>
> I know this may be a newbish question, but any help is greatly
> appreciated :)

I looked at the link for about 3 seconds to figure out that it's mostly
worthless for info quality. The WPC11 802.11b card works fine with the
drivers supplied by the kernel. I'd bet that "Oracle" (repackaged RH)
Linux doesn't exclude them, but YMMV.

Undo everything you've done based on the info at the link. The only
thing you need is an ifcfg-ethX file at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts,
where the "X" is whatever the next available eth number is (probably 1,
since most laptops have a built-in wired eth0 these days).

HWADDR=<whatever it is>
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=no
TYPE=Wireless
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
MODE=Managed
ESSID=ANY
#ESSID=<whatever it is>
#KEY="restricted <whatever wep key>

If you've got a specific SSID, use it instead of ANY. If you've got
WEP, then supply the key. Uncomment as necessary. Then hotplug the
card. It should come up. Make appropriate edits, also, if you've got a
static IP, but for wireless that's unlikely.