Lucent/Agere Linux drivers for Hermes-I/II/II.5-based wireless devices
for Puppy Linux with kernel 2.4.29 - versions 1.0.4 / 1.0.5 / 1.0.6
from www.agere.com/mobility/wireless_lan_drivers.html
compiled by tempestuous, November 2005.
Not tested.
No guarantees.  No support.

Drivers:
wlags49_h1_cs    Hermes-I PCMCIA             manfid 0156,0002
wlags49_h2_cs    Hermes-II PCMCIA            manfid 0156,0003
wlags49_h25_cs   Hermes-II.5 PCMCIA          manfid 0156,0004
wlags49_h25_pci  Hermes-II/II.5 PCI/miniPCI  manfid 11c1,ab30 / 11c1,ab34 / 11c1,ab11

The 0156,0002 device (labelled under several brands) is also supported by the orinoco_cs driver.

This includes:
"Wireless PC Card Model 0104" ("Gold" and "Silver")
"Wireless PC Card Model 0106" ("Gold" and "Silver")
"Wireless Integrated Card Model 0202"
"Wireless Embedded Card Model 0504" (MiniPCI)
"Wireless PC Card Model 0110"
"Wireless PC Card Model 0111"
"Wireless MiniPCI Card Model 0506"
"Wireless MiniPCI Card Model 0508"
"Wireless CompactFlash Card Model 1401"
... and others.


INSTRUCTIONS
## uncompress the driver package from the uppermost directory
cd /
tar -zxvf lucent-agere.tar.gz
## map the new modules
depmod

## load the driver
modprobe wlags49_h1_cs  ## or one of the other versions
## if no error messages, this should create a network interface, eth0
## can check this by running ifconfig -a
## now set up the wireless network
iwconfig eth0 essid MY_ESSID key 1234567890 mode managed
## for automatic IP
dhcpcd -t 20 -h puppypc -d eth0
## or for static IP
## modify /etc/resolv.conf to include your nameservers
#ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.xx broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
#route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0   # or whatever your router's IP is


MAKING IT PERMANENT
If this driver works with your hardware, you will want to have it available every time you boot up.
Save the driver tarball to your /root directory, which is persistent if you use a pupfile.
Add the uncompress and depmod commands to /root/.etc/rc.d/rc.local

cd /
tar -zxvf /root/lucent-agere.tar.gz
depmod

This will install the driver every time you boot up, ready to load and configure as explained above.
A script for this purpose, "lucent-agere-connect" is available.  Just modify the script to include your wireless settings.