Need help\direction getting orinoco card working

$hep · 03-18-2005, 10:59 AM

Hi everyone,
I'm having a hard time getting my orinoco wireless card working.
Reading these posts, setups can be conflicting. I've read hundred's of
post most seem very different.
I'll try and give you as much info as I can about my system and hopfully
someone can point me in the right direction.
I've got a dell 5100 and my wireless card is a orinoco classic gold card.
I thought I would go with orinoco classic cause this is what seemed the
most compatible and easiest to setup.
My kernel is gentoo-dev-2.6.9-r1.
Installed from 2004.3 stage 2
Reading some post's, some say use the kernel modules( enable your card
in the kernel ) if your using 2.6.
Some say not to use kernel modules and emerge pcmcia-cs (forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-53812.html)
I'd like to follow the uberlord's post but it's a year old. ( forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435 )
I don't know which kernel he's working with ( seems like 2.4.* ). Wireless
setup seems to be changing so much.
I don't want to destroy my gentoo system thats worked flawlessly for
over a year...
I've tried using a driver that was patched from one of the uberlords
post's. No go.
I've tried enabling in the kernel and recompiling.
On reboot I get >
* Mounting network filesystems...
*'modprobe yenta_socket' failed
*Trying alternative PCIC driver : i82365
*Starting Pcmcia
cardmgr[5855]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
*Cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
*Modules built or support compiled into the kernel
I've tried emerging pcmcia-cs
I compiled the orinoco driver I spoke of earlier and copied it to /lib/modules/2.6.9-r1/net/wireless
No go...
Any help or direction is greatly appreciated...
If you need more info I will post it

Thanks for any help or input
$hep

$hep · 03-18-2005, 09:09 PM

Hi again,
I won't stop till it works..

I've started over following this guide @ gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_PCMCIA_NIC to the letter.
So here's some of my kernel .config

Code:

# 
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit 
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 
# Fri Mar 18 11:08:27 2005 
# 
CONFIG_X86=y 
CONFIG_MMU=y 
CONFIG_UID16=y 
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y 
CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y 

# 
# Code maturity level options 
# 
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y 
CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y 

# Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) 
# 
CONFIG_PCI=y 
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set 
# CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set 
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set 
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y 
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y 
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y 
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y 
# CONFIG_PCI_MSI is not set 
CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC=y 
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y 
CONFIG_ISA=y 
# CONFIG_EISA is not set 
# CONFIG_MCA is not set 
# CONFIG_SCx200 is not set 

# 
# PCMCIA/CardBus support 
# 
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y 
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set 
CONFIG_YENTA=m 
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y 
# CONFIG_PD6729 is not set 
# CONFIG_I82092 is not set 
CONFIG_I82365=m 
# CONFIG_TCIC is not set 
CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y 

# 
# PCI Hotplug Support 
# 
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set 

# 
# Executable file formats 
# 
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y 
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y 
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y 

# 
# Networking support 
# 
CONFIG_NET=y 

# 
# Networking options 
# 
CONFIG_PACKET=y 
# CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set 
# CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set 
CONFIG_UNIX=y 
# CONFIG_NET_KEY is not set 
CONFIG_INET=y 
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y 
# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set 
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set 
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set 
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set 
# CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is not set 
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set 
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set 
# CONFIG_INET_AH is not set 
# CONFIG_INET_ESP is not set 
# CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP is not set 
# CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL is not set 

# 
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) 
# 
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y 
CONFIG_MII=y 
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set 
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set 
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set 
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set 
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set 
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set 

# 
# Token Ring devices 
# 
# CONFIG_TR is not set 

# 
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) 
# 
CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y 

# 
# Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11) 
# 
# CONFIG_STRIP is not set 
# CONFIG_ARLAN is not set 
# CONFIG_WAVELAN is not set 
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_WAVELAN is not set 
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETWAVE is not set 

# 
# Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support 
# 
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_RAYCS is not set 

# 
# Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support 
# 
# CONFIG_AIRO is not set 
CONFIG_HERMES=m 
# CONFIG_PLX_HERMES is not set 
# CONFIG_TMD_HERMES is not set 
# CONFIG_PCI_HERMES is not set 
# CONFIG_ATMEL is not set 

# 
# Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support 
# 
CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES=m 
# CONFIG_AIRO_CS is not set 
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_WL3501 is not set 

# 
# Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support 
# 
# CONFIG_PRISM54 is not set 
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y 

# 
# PCMCIA network device support 
# 
# CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA is not set 

# 
# Wan interfaces 
# 
# CONFIG_WAN is not set 
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set 
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set 
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set 
CONFIG_PPP=y 
# CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK is not set 
# CONFIG_PPP_FILTER is not set 
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y 
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y 
# CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE is not set 
# CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP is not set 
# CONFIG_PPPOE is not set 
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set 
# CONFIG_NET_FC is not set 
# CONFIG_SHAPER is not set 
# CONFIG_NETCONSOLE is not set 

# 
# ISDN subsystem 
# 
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set 

# 
# PCMCIA character devices 
# 
# CONFIG_SYNCLINK_CS is not set 
# CONFIG_MWAVE is not set 
# CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is not set 
# CONFIG_HPET is not set 
# CONFIG_HANGCHECK_TIMER is not set 

# 
# PCI devices 
# 
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y 
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y 

# 
# PCMCIA devices 
# 
# CONFIG_SND_VXPOCKET is not set 
# CONFIG_SND_VXP440 is not set 
# CONFIG_SND_PDAUDIOCF is not set

Here's the dmesg, that pertains to this.

Code:

 

PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem e0830c00 
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10 
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found 
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected 
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0000bf80 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found 
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected 
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0000bf40 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found 
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected 
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0000bf20 
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found 
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected 
usbcore: registered new driver usblp 
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver 
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... 
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage 
USB Mass Storage support registered. 
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid 
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver 
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.6 (Sun Aug 15 07:17:53 2004 UTC). 
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49476 usecs 
intel8x0: clocking to 48000 
ALSA device list: 
  #0: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 at 0xf4fff800, irq 7 
oprofile: using timer interrupt. 
NET: Registered protocol family 2 
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes 
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) 
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4094 buckets, 32752 max) - 304 bytes per conntrack 
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team 
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>.  http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/ 
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller 
NET: Registered protocol family 1 
NET: Registered protocol family 17 
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5) 
ACPI wakeup devices: 
 LID PBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 MODM PCIE 
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. 
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. 
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds 
Mounted devfs on /dev 
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed 
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[464fc0002c658861] 
Adding 530104k swap on /dev/hdc6.  Priority:-1 extents:1 
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended 
EXT3 FS on hdc7, internal journal 
yenta_socket: Unknown symbol dead_socket 
yenta_socket: Unknown symbol pcmcia_register_socket 
yenta_socket: Unknown symbol pcmcia_socket_dev_resume 
yenta_socket: Unknown symbol pcmcia_parse_events 
yenta_socket: Unknown symbol pcmcia_socket_dev_suspend 
yenta_socket: Unknown symbol pcmcia_unregister_socket 
i82365: Unknown symbol dead_socket 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_register_socket 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_socket_dev_resume 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_parse_events 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_socket_dev_suspend 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_unregister_socket 
i82365: Unknown symbol dead_socket 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_register_socket 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_socket_dev_resume 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_parse_events 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_socket_dev_suspend 
i82365: Unknown symbol pcmcia_unregister_socket 
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. 
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode 
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode 
b44: eth0: Link is down. 
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. 
b44: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.

I didn't want to over do it with info and waste space.
But I'm stumped...
Any input someone can give is appreciated.......

Thanks
$hep