W200 - Linux

[bri kah]

the missing page from ranty can be found by a google search for
ranty w200

the page is now gone, but google still has it cached as of May23 (hit the word "cached" at the end of the google summary) so you can get a copy - I cannot reach it's sublinks, however.

[Magnus Schoultz]

the Linux Orinico usb page has moved to
http://ranty.pantax.net/~ranty/orinoco/

[Chris Tanner]

Got it working on Evo N610c under Mandrake 9.1 as follows:

1. Installed the orinoco_usb driver from http://ranty.pantax.net/~ranty/orinoco/
Note that you may need to download the firmware from another site as the URL embedded in the firmware makefile is not currently valid. See the bug report / support requests on ranty.pantax.net for more on this.

2. added the following to /etc/modules.conf:
alias prism2_usb off
alias prism2_usb orinoco_usb

(There may be a better way of doing this but I couldn't figure out how hotplug determines to load prism2_usb - probably a .opts file somewhere if it works anything like pcmcia wlan cards.)

3. Added /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0:
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID=MY_ESSID

4. Did a network reload and up it came :)

N.B. When Fn-F2 powers the multiport card up and down you can monitor the drivers (un)loading by watching /var/log/messages.

Now can anyone help me recover my display after a suspend.....

[Jeff Hagen]

"and there are some speculations that there actually *are* a couple of Prism-based W200's out there." - Martijn Dekkers There are some out there. I have one of them... If only I could convince it to work.

[Philip Doragh]

There are NO Prism based W200. If you have a Prism based MultiPort module, then you should notice that there is no W200 silk screened at its side. There were 2 different WLAN MultiPort modules, the first was the "Compaq 802.11b MultiPort Module"; the second was the "Compaq WLAN MultiPort Module W200". The 802.11b MultiPort was Prism based, the W200 Agere Hermes based.

[Carsten_6]

may someone interested in:
http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org/
greetings from .de
Carsten

[Phil_88]

So what about the original evo usb wireless cards that just say 'Wireless LAN' on the side? Ive heard conflicting stories about if its even possible to get this installed on linux; has anyone actually gotten this to work?

[Piet Konijn]

I'm trying the Debian package, but I get the message that it is trying to overwrite this file that is also in the hotplug package: /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent .

This is the full output:

root@1[apt]# apt-get install orinoco-usb
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
orinoco-usb
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/12.9kB of archives.
After unpacking 49.2kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 139944 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking orinoco-usb (from .../orinoco-usb_0.2.2-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/orinoco-usb_0.2.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent', which is also in package hotplug
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/orinoco-usb_0.2.2-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

MY SPECS:
Laptop: Compaq Evo N1020v
Wireless Card: Compaq WLAN MultiPort W200

I bought the card this morning after finding this page yesterday evening: http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org

I'm keeping a blog on my experiences with Linux: http://www.foobar.be/~javdbuss/switchblog/ , but maybe I should reshape it like this page: http://larve.net/people/hugo/2002/12/evo410

Please help. Thank you.

[Piet Konijn]

A friend of mine made it work for me. I'm trying to document it on my switchblog, but I wasn't even there when he did it, so it's all secondhand information. :-)

http://www.foobar.be/~javdbuss/switchblog/archives/2004_04_09_archive.html#108147236649330744

[Bones Jones]

According to http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org/

Ranty died in a car crash which might explain why his site is no longer up.

RIP Ranty...

[eejut]

Hi

I have written (what I hope is) a detailed Howto and explanation for how the drivers for this work in Linux. See http://www.schultz.co.nz/Plone/Members/chris/kernel/laptop/w200 if you are interested.

I have attached a version of the code from CVS including firmware to this post. Hope this helps people out!