More in the saga of wireless network connectivity. =) Someone mailed me off-list to report that they had enjoyed success with their Orinoco card using the 8.10 firmware revision. So I downgraded the firmware in both of my cards. Again, everything appears to work at first. Now, however, the LEAF/Bering box bombs out after as little as five minutes of no activity on the wireless segment. Doing 'iwconfig' on the LEAF/Bering console produces the same results as before:
> hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. > eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS Nickname:"firewall" > Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:42.9497GHz Tx-Power=15 dBm > RTS thr:off > Encryption key:off > '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart' or ejecting and re-instering the card fixed the problem, until the next period of inactivity. I switched cards, putting the LEAF/Bering card into my laptop, and vice versa; but the problem remained -- a moderate period of inactivity caused the system to think that the card was no longer there. The laptop does not produce these error messages, so I'm fairly confident that the problem is isolated to the LEAF/Bering box. This could mean that I've got a screwy configuration somehow, or that I've got a hardware problem (most likely a flakey ISA-to-PCMCIA adapter?). I'm going to build a new LEAF/Bering floppy from scratch -- following the Wireless section of the User's Guide to a tee from the beginning -- and see if that fixes me up. I'd love to hear from Orinoco users which firmware versions you've had success and failure with. It sounds like Matt Schalit is enjoying 7.28, while Brock Nanson and the person who sent me a private message are enjoying 8.10. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
