topic LAN-Express drivers? in Operating System - Linux

LAN-Express drivers?

Max_22 — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:10:06 GMT

I have bought a ze5000 laptop with built in wireless lan. Apparentely it is Lan-Express. Who is the manufacturer? Is there a linux driver available somewhere? Is there one in any GNU\Linux distro?

Has anyone had any luck getting it work under linux???

Re: LAN-Express drivers?

William G. James — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 03:57:09 GMT

It is supported via the orinoco driver. The trick is the chipset is connected via the pci bus.

Add this line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

modprobe orinoco_pci

reboot and you should be able to configure your wireless connection via the network configuration tool in your linux distribution.

I have tested this only with Red Hat 8.

Re: LAN-Express drivers?

Xiaozheng Ma — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 20:39:30 GMT

I'm struggling with the installation of ReadHat8.0 on my new pavillion ze5000 notebook. During install, it initializes PCMCIA when it gets to media check it hangs.

I tried put idebus=66 to get through the install, this does not work on RH 8. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please tell us how you did?

Re: LAN-Express drivers?

Mark Jenkins_1 — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:29:38 GMT

As for your machine hanging when loading RH 8.0. I plugged in a PCI Mouse & I was able to go beyond that hang point.

Good Luck!

Mark

Re: LAN-Express drivers?

Hernan Petitti — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:39:51 GMT

it works fedora core 2 with autodetection.