Hello,

I have an Orinoco silver card, but can't get it working. I'm running rh9, kernel 2.4.20-8.
lsmod says that modules orinoco_cs, orinoco and hermes are installed.
But when I try to activate eth1, I get " orinoco_cs device does not seem to be present, initialization delayed". The hardware box says I have "Lucent orinoco and Prism II-bas" card.
My computer is a Dell latitude C400 laptop.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

kchance:

i feel your pain, I have (kinda) similar problems with my mandrake 9.1 machine and my orinoco silver card. What does your system tell you when you attemp to pass parameteres with iwconfig? Does iwconfig recognise any wireless extensions?

are you loading the module with the command modprobe orinoco

so that it loads all the correct dependant modules ?

does dmesg tell you any more details ?

I am loading the driver in /etc/modules.conf with
'alias eth1 orinoco'
The module is loaded, but iwconfig tells me that eth1 is 'no such device.

Sections from dmesg are:
orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.0
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, irq11
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0xa0000000-0xa0fffffff: clean

Any ideas as to why eth1 is not recognised? eth0 is my ethernet card.

Karen

type iwconfig with no parameters should display all interfaces and if they support wireless extensions ?

try that?

Hello!
I have been working on wireless networking in Linux for a short while. The onee distribution thaat gave me the most paain was Redhat 9.0, which I purchased for $34.99 with a GREAT book called, "Redhat Linux 9 Bible," by Christopher Negus. As helpful as the book is, I was unable to get the wireless card (Orinoco Gold) to work. However, I turned to Mandrake 9.1 and had flawless success with VERY minimal configuration. I have seen many discussions on this site regarding rh9 and Orinoco cards. Most all of them end in no resolution. Unless you really want rh9 (it is a great distribution and I like it, except for the Orinoco issues), give Mandrake 9.1 a try. It is the distribution I am using to post this reply with an Orinoco Gold card accessing a college wireless LAN. Good luck in your efforts!

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