[expert] wlan, orinoco card, pci pcmcia adaptor

[Praedor Tempus]

Does anyone have a lucent orinoco card (I have a gold card) in a 
pcmcia-to-pci adaptor that actually works in linux/Mandrake?

The orinoco cards are supposed to be among the best supported of the 802.11b 
cards available yet I have never managed to get it working.

I have Mandrake 8.2 installed on a desktop system and a pcmcia-to-pci 
adaptor. When I load the wvlan_cs driver, my messages log produces:

Aug  2 14:58:32 localhost kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
Aug  2 14:58:32 localhost kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Aug  2 14:58:32 localhost kernel: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of 
device 00:06.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Aug  2 14:58:32 localhost kernel: Yenta IRQ list , PCI irq0
Aug  2 14:58:32 localhost kernel: Socket status: 3010
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost cardmgr[8509]: starting, version is 3.1.31
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost cardmgr[8509]: watching 1 sockets
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 
0x200-0x207 0x290-0x297 0x400-0x40f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa000-0xa0ff: 
clean.Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost cardmgr[8509]: socket 0: Lucent Technologies 
WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost cardmgr[8509]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs'
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug  2 14:58:33 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
Aug  2 14:58:34 localhost cardmgr[8509]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: 
Resource temporarily unavailable

Yeah, right...TEMPORARILY unavailable.  It is NEVER available.  The card in 
the pcmcia-to-pci adaptor is simply unusable.  I have no idea how to proceed 
here.  I rebuilt the kernel with all the appropriate wireless lan support and 
drivers that even remotely appeared to be useful, yet I am dead in the water 
here.

Anyone have any ideas or a way around this?  I have disabled my mobos 
parallel port because I don't use it - I had hoped to free up an IRQ in so 
doing (IRQ7) and I even commented out the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts line that 
excludes IRQ7 because of the parallel port so I would, presumably, have IRQ7 
available for use.  Nope.  

Any aid would be greatly appreciated.

praedor



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Re: [expert] wlan, orinoco card, pci pcmcia adaptor

[jarmo]

On Friday 02 August 2002 23:12, Praedor Tempus wrote:
 Does anyone have a lucent orinoco card (I have a gold card) in a
 pcmcia-to-pci adaptor that actually works in linux/Mandrake?

 The orinoco cards are supposed to be among the best supported of the
 802.11b cards available yet I have never managed to get it working.

 I have Mandrake 8.2 installed on a desktop system and a pcmcia-to-pci
 adaptor. When I load the wvlan_cs driver, my messages log produces:


 Anyone have any ideas or a way around this?  I have disabled my mobos
 parallel port because I don't use it - I had hoped to free up an IRQ in so
 doing (IRQ7) and I even commented out the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts line that
 excludes IRQ7 because of the parallel port so I would, presumably, have
 IRQ7 available for use.  Nope.

 Any aid would be greatly appreciated.

 praedor

Hi

I have Silwer card working...Have to say that wat much harder to get it
working in 8.2 than 8.1.
Whole 8.2 installation failed into pcmcia state.I had to take adaptor away
and install 8.2 first,then afterwards add it.But still had troubles.

What I did,was ,I took separate pcmcia-cs-3.1.33.tar.gz package and
compiled that + separate orinoco-cs package and added that into system...
Ofcourse had to recompile kernel without pcmcia...Info can be found from
pcmcia-cs package likewise about orinoco-cs info.

Here's what you need..
.http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

If you have questions I can try answer directly...But I have limited time
to be with my linux-mandrake...Tomorrow have to leave it for 1 months
time...Not able to answer questions...Have no possibilities to read my
mail during this month...

Jarmo



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