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I am trying to install an Orinoco Gold 128 802.11b card.

dmesg gives this output:

s: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x20f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0210-0x03bf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04cf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
eth1: Station identity 0015:0002:0001:000a
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.10.2
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 6 bytes. (rid=0xfc01, len=0x0000)
eth1: MAC address 15:00:02:00:01:00
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 34 bytes. (rid=0xfc0e, len=0x0000)
eth1: Station name ""
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfd10, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc06, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc83, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc82, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc0c, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc0d, len=0x0000)
eth1: firmware ALLOC bug detected (old Symbol firmware?). Trying to work around... failed!
eth1: Error -5 allocating Tx buffer
orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed

any ideas what might be causing this or how to fix it?
I am on a dell inspiron 1100