Scott,
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:34:24 EST Scott wrote:
> 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.
I have also had success with firmware 8.10 (and 6.16) and
Lucent/Orinoco/Agere Silver cards using both the 0.09b and 0.11b
orinoco_cs drivers with a Vadem VG-469 ISA-to-PCMCIA adpater
running in IEEE Ad-Hoc mode. Actually, let me qualify that:
I have had success as long as I don't add a prism2 peer to the
network. When I do I get a lot of Tx errors and resets on the
orinoco end.
> 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.
[..]
Never seen those error messages before. Something is defintely wrong,
but I'm not sure what. You might get better help on the orinoco-user
list:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=orinoco-users
or in the samba wireless archives:
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/
> > eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS Nickname:"firewall"
> > Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:42.9497GHz Tx-Power=15 dBm
Huh? 42.9 GHz!! It should be in the 2.4 GHz range.
> '/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.
Which version of orinoco_cs does the Bering system use? Does the
notebook use orinoco_cs drivers? (Note: you could also try the
wavelan2_cs binary driver from Lucent.)
> 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?).
What make and model is the ISA-to-PCMCIA bridge?
> 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.
You may also want to try the 2.4.20 version of the kernel,
pcmcia_orinoco.lrp, and modules.lrp since that will get you up
to the 0.11b version of orinoco_cs.
--Brad
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