Orinoco Gold on Slackware trouble

eggman95 · 01-24-2006, 03:25 PM

I have an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card. Running Slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29.

The card works fine and gets the internet but I can't get it to scan for other networks. It justs connects to anyone it wants. I've read through a lot of tutorials and how-to's but they seem to be all for the 2.6 kernel. Is there anyway to get this card to support scanning? And if not, what card do you guys recommend that will work a lot easier?

TIA.

Half_Elf · 01-24-2006, 09:56 PM

What you mean "it can't scan network" ? What is the output of the command "iwlist [your_wireless_interface] scanning"? What drivers are you using?
It's a bit unclear, tell us what you tried/want to do.

eggman95 · 01-24-2006, 10:33 PM

sorry i was unclear.

iwlist eth0 scanning gives me:
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported.

I don't know what drivers i'm using, whatever comes with slackware 10.1, 2.4.29 kernel.

I want to be able to scan for other wireless access points.

I know other people have difficulties with this card. Is there another PCMCIA card that will work with no problem?

Half_Elf · 01-25-2006, 07:36 AM

There is some other cards, but before trashing this one, you should try to use driver external to kernel. I found wireless drivers in kernel buggy, broken and highly inadequate. If you card if prism2 (all orinoco are if I remember right?) you should give a try to the hostap drivers. There is some chances that this one will work way better.

eggman95 · 01-25-2006, 10:15 PM

ok i'm going to try that.