On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:06, Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > Le Lundi 12 Août 2002 18:49, Oden Eriksson a écrit : > > On måndagen den 12 augusti 2002 06.18 Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > > > Le Lundi 12 Août 2002 17:33, Oden Eriksson a écrit : > > > > On måndagen den 12 augusti 2002 04.58 Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > We have tried to install linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14 drivers on Mandrake > > > > > 9.0 Beta > > > > > > > > Hi, I looked into this a couple of months ago when I found the OpenAP > > > > project. To me it looks like there are also some major fundamental > > > > differences in the pcmcia-cs provided by Mandrake that makes this > > > > impossible? > > > > > Apparently, the PRISMII cards are working rather well with the Mandrake > 2.4.19mdk kernel. There are still some issues I think however. The main > problemen I had with orinoco dirvers on PRISM II cards is that the driver > has the be rebooted (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) after some heavy file > transfers (typ. 100MB). This does not happen with wlan-ng drivers. > > Maybe the current kernel is OK for client systems (but it is not OK for > servers which act as Access Point).
I've noted a similar issue. My fix was simple; get the latest version of the orinoco drivers from the author's homepage ( http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/ - current version as I write this is 0.12b). Compile that and do a 'make install', then go to /lib/modules/<your kernel version>/kernel/drivers/net/wireless, remove Mandrake's gzipped orinoco/hermes modules, re-run depmod -a, and re-cycle the card. This version of the driver has never given this kind of error for me; can someone please enlighten me as to exactly what version is included in the Mandrake kernel? (Removing the Mandrake modules may be optional, btw, but I didn't want to test what 'modprobe orinoco_cs' does when you have orinoco_cs.o *and* orinoco_cs.o.gz :>). I've not tried the wlan-ng stuff on my card. -- adamw
