Fedora core 2 driver selection with (proxim) orinoco gold

tritonapc · 09-26-2004, 08:28 AM

I am really confused!

I am trying to get the wireless card up on a Toshiba satellite s103 laptop.

I have one Proxim (Orinoco gold) wireless card. The cardmgr works and cardctl detects:

Code:

$/sbin/cardctl status

Socket 0:
  5V 16-bit PC Card
  function 0: [ready]

$/sbin/cardctl ident

Socket 0:
  product info: "Agere Systems", "Wireless PC Card Model 0111", "", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0003
  function: 6 (network)

I have heard two contradicting things, one that the Orinoco drivers are already installed in my
2.6.8 kernel and I'm good to go, and two that I need to upgrade or even install these drivers if I'm ever going to get this to work.

I had problems with the cardmgr failing with the yenta stuff detailed here:
Sorry I can't post links yet perhaps ill edit when I hit five posts.

Code:

                      $/sbin/modprobe yenta-socket
                      $/sbin/service pcmcia start

So, after fixing my pcmcia cardmgr I tried using fedoras network configurator
Start > System Settings > network

I ran the Ethernet wizard for a wireless card
New > wireless connection > other wireless card
When I came to the Ethernet adapter screen I found that I had no idea what driver to use
or what IRQ the card was on. I assume this is my problem.

So, 2 questions.
Did I miss something from the way you did it? Do I need to install the Orinoco card drivers?

-manuel

tritonapc · 09-26-2004, 01:16 PM

found ndis wrapper and added the proxim orinoco drivers to it. Still busy reading the FAQ and manual but it seemed to go over well. Although I do get the problem of having drivers but no detected hardware. So once more I ask since I have no idea what im doing for the most part. Could there be something im missing? Could someone post a guide on what steps they took to get their wireless card going?

-manuel

Harryc · 09-26-2004, 01:17 PM

What is the result of the commands 'lsmod', 'ifconfig' and 'iwconfig'? Don't need to post the entire lsmod, just the orinoco references.

tritonapc · 09-26-2004, 03:27 PM

Code:

/sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:3F:8B:2E:08
          inet addr:192.168.0.103  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:3fff:fe8b:2e08/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2489 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4330135 (4.1 Mb)  TX bytes:302346 (295.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000
 
lo        <left the local loopback out>


 
 /sbin/iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
 
sit0      no wireless extensions.
 
eth0      no wireless extensions

Yeah whole lot of nothing.

Here is everything that I think mentionable from lsmod

Code:

/sbin/lsmod

wavelan_cs             30685  0
ds                     12869  9 wavelan_cs
pcmcia_core            51336  3 yenta_socket,wavelan_cs,ds
orinoco_cs             <I made a mistake listing the important
                        lsmod list, sorry.>

Like I said I'm still trying to grok the way the drivers are loaded and especially how ndiswrapper might solve my whoas with the windows drivers.

Here is the output of ndiswrapper -l

Code:

./ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
wlagsall        hardware NOT present

its obvious that absolutely nothing in the system recognizes my card except that is for the cardmgr/cardctl itself.

Harryc · 09-26-2004, 06:48 PM

Try this command. 'modprobe orinoco_cs' then rerun the ifconfig and iwconfig. Your card should be picking up the built in orinoco_cs driver, and it is not. I have an original Orinoco Gold card (not maxim) and that is the driver it uses. If the modprobe works, then you need to create an alias in /etc/modprobe.conf for the orinoco driver. 'alias wlan0 orinoco_cs'...it's the wlan0 interface that you need to determine after the driver is loaded. If iwconfig returns eth1 for your wireless interface, then the alias would be 'alias eth1 orinoco_cs'.

tritonapc · 09-27-2004, 08:22 PM

Yeah it would appear that the module or plug-in is not loaded in the kernel I will research what I need to do to see if it is simply not loaded as in the case of a module, or whether I need to install the module. I thought that my final conclusion was that all 2.6 kernel came with built in Orinoco support, but we will see if that is true. Thank you for helping me. I think I will write a tutorial after I'm done.

Code:

       $/sbin/modprobe orinoco.cs
       FATAL: Module orinoco.cs not found.

However on a hunch I tried /sbin/modprobe orinoco_cs

Code:

      $/sbin/modprobe orinoco_cs
      $

This did... something, but who knows what.

-Manuel

Harryc · 09-27-2004, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tritonapc
However on a hunch I tried /sbin/modprobe orinoco_cs

Code:

$/sbin/modprobe orinoco_cs $

This did... something, but who knows what.

-Manuel

Well, does lsmod now list the orinoco_cs driver?

tritonapc · 09-27-2004, 08:33 PM

Sorry, I just realized that I made a mistake in listing the lsmod.

I in fact do have a few more to add:

Code:

Module                     Size       Used by
orinoco_cs                 7625       0
orinoco                    45517      1 orinoco_cs
hermes                     6721       2 orinoco_cs, orinoco
ds                         12869      6 wavelan_cs, orinoco_cs
pcmcia_core                51336      4 wavelan_cs, orinoco_cs, ds, yenta_socket

I am really sorry about that I should have seen these earlier.

So if the size of these matches other working drivers then my last question will hopefully be: What can I do to load the orinoco_cs driver manually in a config file?

Harryc · 09-27-2004, 08:41 PM

Does ifconfig and/or iwconfig have an entry for eth1 or wlan0 now?

tritonapc · 09-27-2004, 08:49 PM

unfortunately no.

Harryc · 09-27-2004, 08:53 PM

Allright, try this...create an alias in /etc/modprobe.conf for the orinoco driver. 'alias eth1 orinoco_cs' , then reboot. Then try ifconfig again.

tritonapc · 09-27-2004, 09:02 PM

No ifconfig and iwconfig return the same.

Harryc · 09-27-2004, 09:30 PM

The only other thing I can think of is that you need Agere drivers...not my area of expertise. Perhaps a google search can help or the readme for the drivers.

http://www.agere.com/mobility/wireless_lan_drivers.html

Good luck.

tritonapc · 09-27-2004, 09:33 PM

very well, Thank you for your help