> I thought this might be a hardware problem, but it does not seem to be the > case. > > I tried the Lucent ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card on my Slackware Linux > laptop, and it seems to work fine with the "orinoco" driver. The > driver load without any problem. I can scan and connect to an essid. > Even the lights are switched on. > > However, it would be a hardware problem from the iPaq PCMCIA sleeve. > I will probably buy another to confirm that.
do you have a single or double slot sleeve? the double slot sleeve needs extra code to work -- hmm... if you would have such one it wouldn't have worked at all and you mentioned that it has somewhat worked, thus, single sleeve?