Linux and Xircom CBE1100 Wireless card

I may be wrong, but I don't think that is the Xircom CBE card
named in the title of your posting.
You will see that the document you cite
mentions Xircom CBE's in conjunction with other drivers.

In any case, I would give greater weight to
#
when discussing Wireless cards.

However, your cards seem to be working with this driver,
so I assume your problem is with routing or firewall.

Most distributions install some sort of firewall, I think.
I use the rc.firewall script I found in the IPTables-Tutorial.

As I said, iptables -L should tell you
what sort of firewall (if any) you have.

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Hello Tim,
Here is the document that states the compatibility of cards...

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Wireless network adapters:

[airo_cs driver] [x86]
Aironet PC4500, PC4800
Cisco 340
Xircom Wireless Ethernet Adapter

I'll try to see if I have a firewall installed. As I recall I don't.

I can connect the computers by wireless. I can FTP and ping the two.

I'm not sure what document you are referring to.
My /etc/pcmcia/config only binds airo_cs to Aironet cards.

As I recall, you said you had an Orinoco card.
If so, it seems slightly perverse not to use the orinoco_cs driver,
since this is the standard Linux kernel WiFi driver.

However, this doesn't appear to be the cause of your problems.

What exactly is the connection between wireless and the internet?
I'm not clear what your setup is.

Can you connect the two computers by wireless?
If so, do you have a firewall?
What does "iptables -L" say?

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Timothy Murphy
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Well, the readme of supported PCMCIA modules says to use the airo_cs
modules.

I know that the wireless card is working. I can't get the computer to
recognize the DNS entries. When I try to ping an outside website
(#) linux says "Network cannot be reached".

Any thoughts?

I haven't understood your question.
How are you connected to "the web"?

If as you say your two laptops can ping each other
then there can't be anything wrong with the wireless communication,
which seems to suggest there is something wrong with your routing.

Can you ssh from one laptop to the other?

I don't know about the Xircom card,
but the kernel WiFi module orinoco_cs works with Orinoco cards,
so I'm not clear why you would use airo_cs, if that is what you are saying.

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Timothy Murphy
e-mail:
tel: +353-86-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland