adding Proxim (Agere) orinoco gold card to sarge
I installed sarge with a 2.4.26 kernel about a month ago. Now I'm trying to get it to use a Proxim Orinoco 802.11b PC card I got recently. The card works: it installed in windows without trouble & can pick up networks.
In debian, I'm really groping around in the dark; I found threads here & there, but I can't find anything that really explains the process from beginning to end. As far as I can tell, my PCMCIA is working and the card is recognized. I get beeps when I plug it in & when I take it out. When I run "cardctl ident" it prints: Socket 0: product info: "Agere Systems", "Wireless PC Card Model 0111","","" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0003 function: 6 (network) I installed wireless-tools package, but when I type "iwconfig" it gives: lo no wireless extensions eth0 no wireless extensions I believe the orinoco_cs driver should work with this card, so I added orinoco to /etc/modules. lsmod gives me: orinoco_cs (unused) orinoco [used by orinoco_cs] hermes [used by orinoco_cs orinoco] ... yenta_socket pcmcia_core [used by orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket] ... (and other modules of course but I don't think any others are relevant here). Also, based on stuff I found in several tutorials, I (a) created a file /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf containing: device "orinoco_cs" class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs" card "Wireless PC Card Model 0111" manfid 0x0156, 0x0003 bind "orinoco_cs" and (b) commented out the lines between ----start section to remove----- and ----end section to remove---- in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. I don't know what either of those things was supposed to accomplish, but in any case I don't see any indication that the card is being recognized correctly. In System Tools/networking/add/wireless no wireless device is listed. Can anyone please give me instructions (or a link to complete documentation) that will let me get this thing working? |
I found some more information that is probably useful, but I don't know what to do about it.
dmesg now gives me the following relating to this pc card: Quote:
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Ah, I just found what may be the answer here:
http://www.splitbrain.org/dokuwiki/wlan:orinocosilver even though that one says silver and mine says gold, looks like the same problem. Unless someone has an easier solution, I guess I'll try that one. |
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