Has anyone successfully gotten an Orinoco Silver wireless lan card to work under Mandrake 8? I've got an orinoco that wants to talk to an apple airport. I've read the messages on this list, and also the http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/wireless list, but I still don't see the "final conclusion" that shows how it's done. [Mind you, I was able to get the PCMCIA + PCI adapter all to work in 7.2, with the lucent drivers. Matter of fact, I'm using another machine configured w/7.2+orinoco to write this.] Now, with Mdk8, these seem to be the results others besides just me are experiencing: 1. Orinoco_cs/doesn't install because of unresolved syms. 2. Lucent's drivers don't even compile under the new kernel. 3. wvlan_cs -almost- works. I'm assuming that #3, the driver that ships with Mandrake, is the way to go, correct? I've set it up to the best of my understanding, in a very simple network, but something's wrong. Pings to the AP or "outside" give 'destination unreachable' errors. Iwconfig states that I've got a link (at least it reports link quality figures, so I'm guessing it found the access point). I've got the ESSID set to the network name and all that. I don't use encryption on this network, so that's not the issue. Managed mode, no tricky ad-hoc stuff. I can insert/eject the card all day long and get the "good" beeps, etc. But, I'm stuck here: my logfile's full of messages that say NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out wvlan_cs: eth0 Tx timed out! resetting card wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is <some address> wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x60006 (vendor 1) - Firmware capabilites 1-1-1-1-1 I know that others have seen this problem, from reading the lists. So, what's the magic incantation I'm missing? I assume someone has gotten the Orinoco to work under Mandrake 8. How? Can someone please summarize (Skip Montanaro?) ? thanks, jeff
