Hi all. Really hope someone out there can help me out here.

Ok I had my Orinoco Gold Card (Lucent/Agere 8.72 firmware) up and running in monitor mode on my previous Linux distro using 2.4.** kernel and the patched 0.13 orinoco driver.

So would like to get it working again on my latest distro (Slackware 11) running 2.6.20.7 kernel. So I already have the 0.15 orinoco driver but because of the 8.72 firmware monitor mode is disabled.....

'iwconfig eth1 mode monitor'
dmesg... 'eth1: Monitor mode support is buggy in this firmware, not enabling'.

So I wish to patch the 0.13 driver as in my previous installation.

I am using the already patched driver, orinoco-0.13e-SN-15, from

http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmahh/orinoco.html
But when I 'make' it fails with....

macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2
orinoco.c: In function `alloc_orinocodev':
orinoco-0.13e-SN-15/orinoco.c:4474: error: `INIT_WORK' undeclared (first use in this function)
orinoco-0.13e-SN-15/orinoco.c:4474: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only

So I tried with orinoco-0.13e-SN-16 and this fails with...

In function `orinoco_get_drvinfo':
orinoco-0.13e-SN-16/orinoco.c:4234: error: structure has no member named `dev'
orinoco-0.13e-SN-16/orinoco.o] Error 1
orinoco-0.13e-SN-16] Error 2

So I take it I need a 0.13 driver specifically patched to compile on 2.6.20 kernel or a patch to the current drivers (I mean 0.13) to allow one or the other to compile on 2.6.20??

Any ideas where to find these or any other help very much appreciated.

BashTin

The SVN code on the project pages lists support for 2.6.22. You might try that.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco

Alternatively, older versions of firmware might work. Some are available here:

http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html

Thanks 2Gnu but I read somewhere that after kernel 2.20 the macro INIT_WORK was redefined/rewrote. Orinoco patched driver (0.13) Rev15 is for 2.6.19 kernel. The next patched driver, Rev16 is for kernel 2.6.21. The drivers (0.15) at

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco

work ok in monitor mode with some orinoco cards but not with the 8.72 firmware mine has.

Anyway to cut a long story short I just updated my kernel to 2.6.21 and used the patched 0.13e rev.16 driver at

http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmahh/orinoco.html

Complied and works a treat.

Thanks again, BashTin.

Great info. Thanks for posting it.