Check the log messages. I have similiar problem with orinoco_cs driver. The orinoco gold (WaveLAN Turbo 11 Mbps) works fine with all versions of Windows - XP, ME, 2000, Win98) but not with Bering's orinoco_cs. For some reasons, the orinoco_cs can't access the card correctly. It can't get the Mac address from the firmware. I have tried most of the orinoco firmware - 6.x - 8.x (which is the latest). I still got the same result. I can't complain to Lucent (Agrere) because it works fine with Windows.
Newton --- Scott Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:45 pm, Matt Schalit > wrote: > > Hi Scott, sorry to hear about the wireless > problems. > > I have the same network hardware as you. Tell us > if > > you diverged at all from the Bering User's Guide > Orinoco > > section? > > I flashed both cards to the latest firmware from > www.orinocowireless.com, > which isn't mentioned in the Guide. > > Rather than comment out the first four lines of > wireless.opts, I entered my > values in that block: > INFO="test" > MODE="Ad-Hoc" > RATE="auto" > ESSID="test" > > > Also, you haven't pasted in the wireless config > > files nor the output of iwconfig. > > I knew I'd forget something! All of the equipment > is at home, while I'm at > work. I'll send the output from each later tonight. > > I can tell you that 'iwconfig' on the laptop shows: > lo: no wireless extensions > eth0: no wireless extensions > I have to specifically call eth1 on the command line > for iwconfig in order to > see the output. > > > But if we trust you have those right, then the > > flakey response sounds like hardware at first > > glance. Have you 100% proven to yourself that > > each piece of hardware works? > > I _believe_ they do, although it's hard to be sure. > Just before diving into all of this, I took the card > that is currently in the > laptop to a local coffee shop that offers a free > wireless connection. Both > Debian and Windows 98 were able to obtain a DHCP > address and use the network. > > I have not tested the card in the ISA-PCMCIA adapter > in the same way, but I > certainly can do so soon. > > > What link speeds do you get when the two systems > > are next to each other? > > I didn't check while in Debian. I did boot into > Windows 98 to use the Orinoco > "Link Monitor" utility. It showed a "Good" 11Mbps > connection while in the > same room as the Bering box, and dropped to > "Marginal" when I took the laptop > downstairs. After several minutes at "Marginal", > the link suddenly jumped > back up to "Excellent", but the MAC address listed > for the remote station > changed to a series of all "4"s, and the bar charts > all went blank. I can't > recall now whether the Bering box reported errors > after this or not. > > I have not tried switching the cards between > computers, but I will do that > tonight. > > Thanks for the help! > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Take your first > step towards giving > your online business a competitive advantage. > Test-drive a Thawte SSL > certificate - our easy online guide will show you > how. Click here to get > started: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0027en > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Take your first step towards giving your online business a competitive advantage. Test-drive a Thawte SSL certificate - our easy online guide will show you how. Click here to get started: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0027en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html