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What is a good WLAN card for a laptop that runs with Mandrake 10 ?
At the moment I have the W200 for my compaq evo v1020 and this card is not supported at installation as far as I know.
So what wlan card is working after installation of mandrake 10 ?
Says... Orinoco? That's not really a lot of help, lsusb talks about Compaq too much, so the best bet is the FCC ID, printed somewhere on the device itself, what's that say?
ok, well I downloaded the latest driver and installed it, but its not working. I think I did everything right. make then make install. Any suggestions. btw the chip of the card is aqere, though it does use herm.
hmm, module not found. I don't see a module for orinoco with usb. I downloaded orinoco-0.15rc2 was this the right one? It compiled without errors. Here is a listing directory after it was compiled.
I can't remember where I got that, its as old as this past summer, been sitting in a wayward section of my home dir since I got to play with a weird Zylex USB stick.
If that doesn't load right I'll take a whack at tracking down the current source repository.
didn't work, had this error before, downloaded newer version and worked. Can't find a newer version for the orinoco_usb so I'm not sure what to do from here.
[redcoder01@localhost orinoco-usb-0.2.2]$ make KERNEL_SRC=/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build/
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver'
mkdir -p .tmp_versions
cp /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build//.tmp_versions/*.mod /home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/.tmp_versions
cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build//.tmp_versions/*.mod': No such file or directory
make[1]: [modules] Error 1 (ignored)
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build/ SUBDIRS=/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver MODVERDIR=/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/.tmp_versions modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build'
CC [M] /home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.o
/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.c: In function `orinoco_cs_hard_reset':
/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.c:135: warning: implicit declaration of function `CardServices'
/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.c: In function `orinoco_cs_attach':
/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.c:207: error: structure has no member named `release'
/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.c:208: error: structure has no member named `release'
/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.c:209: error: structure has no member named `release'
make[3]: *** [/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver/orinoco_cs.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/redcoder01/orinoco-usb-0.2.2/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2
It was an idependant project, then the developer died, David Gibson picked it up and merged it into the official driver but has yet to include the USB driver in the official releases. The short version...
You'll have to grab the CVS:
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/orinoco co orinoco
That'll create an orinoco/ directory... then its just a make, make install.
well, it compiled but it had some warnings and when I tried to load the module it gave an error, but it at least found the module.
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/spectrum_cs.ko] has no
CRC!
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/prism_usb.ko] has no CR
C!
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_usb.ko] has no
CRC!
*** Warning: "__orinoco_ev_info" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_usb.ko] has n
o CRC!
*** Warning: "__orinoco_ev_rx" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_usb.ko] has no
CRC!
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_tmd.ko] has no
CRC!
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_plx.ko] has no
CRC!
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_pci.ko] has no
CRC!
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_nortel.ko] has
no CRC!
*** Warning: "free_orinocodev" [/home/redcoder01/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko] has no C
RC!
[root@localhost orinoco]# /sbin/modprobe orinoco_usb
FATAL: Error inserting orinoco_usb (/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/drivers/net/
wireless/orinoco_usb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dm
esg)
[root@localhost orinoco]# dmesg
system-config-n: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actu
al device
orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol __orinoco_ev_rx
orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol __orinoco_ev_info
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