Greetings everyone in Linux land. I have some questions. Hopefully someone can help. I am trying to get my Orinoco Gold PC Card to work on Slackware 10.1 using kernel 2.4.29. Here are some things for everyone.

root@QWest:/home/chris# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)

root@QWest:/home/chris# /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart
Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgr modulesds: Device or resource busy
yenta_socket: Device or resource busy
pcmcia_core: Device or resource busy
.
Starting PCMCIA services:
cardmgr[4172]: watching 1 socket

root@QWest:/home/chris# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller

root@QWest:/home/chris# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Anything else you need to know that can help solve this problem please ask!
Thanks,
Chris

Have you tried "iwconfig wlan0"? Interfaces seem to be different per driver.

I'll check that out and get back to you. Also when I boot the computer my card makes 2 different beeps. Which I understand it is suppose to. Also the lights never come on.

Just checked out iwconfing wlan0
and I got
no such device wlan0

Any other suggestions?

If the lights aren't on it doesn't work. It doesn't look like it's being recognized and loaded properly but what to do about it I don't know.

Try:
modprobe orinoco_cs
ifconfig eth0 up

Then run iwconfig to see if the card is "there."

root@QWest:/home/chris# modprobe orinoco
root@QWest:/home/chris# modprobe orinoco_cs
root@QWest:/home/chris# modprobe hermes
root@QWest:/home/chris# ifconfig eth0 up
root@QWest:/home/chris# ifconfig eth1 up
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
root@QWest:/home/chris# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Nope..Also I think that my wireless card should be eth1 b/c my ethernet card is eth0