The Laptop's Wireless Card

This one is a bit tricky, because the support needed for the wireless ethernet on the laptop is only available in development versions of the orinoco driver. It's stalled there, because the person who was developing it was killed in an automobile accident last year...

Anyway, the wireless card uses the "orinoco" chipset, interfaced to a USB controller in the laptop. This means it needs a special version of the driver; in addition, it works by downloading the firmware to the card when the driver is started.

So, to get this stuff to work:

1. First, you need the driver. I've got the source tarred and gzipped here.
2. Your kernel needs to be configured so that it can install firmware on devices that need it. I expect it already is.
3. Compiling and installing should be easy. Just extract the sources, build, and install with

   tar xvzf orinogo.tgz
   cd orinoco
   make
   make install
   			

4. Get the firmware image here
5. Put the firmware image in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/orinoco_ezusb_fw

And, with any luck, it should work!