Hi all,

I have a Avaya (Orinoco) wireless PCMCIA card and am trying to setup my laptop running Red hat linux 7.3 for wireless access. Basically, I haven't been able to get anything working! During bootup my eth1 interface is not detected. So my card doesnt beep or shows no lights when it is inserted in the PCMCIA slot. I also need information on how to set it up so as to access a wireless network...i am trying to access my campus wireless network here.

Any help will be greatly appreciated...thanks!

I know this may be a pain due to the fact that perhaps you're not able to access the internet via RH7.3, but more info via linux root console commands is necessary....here goes:
(with the card inserted)
lsmod
cardctl status
cardctl ident
ifconfig -a
and, if this is a cardbus (32bit) card:
lspci -vv

well this is what I get....

$ lsmod

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
i810_audio 23008 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 11904 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6692 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
agpgart 39488 3 (autoclean)
NVdriver 1150016 11 (autoclean)
binfmt_misc 7556 1
autofs 12164 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds 8608 1
yenta_socket 12384 1
pcmcia_core 50752 0 [ds yenta_socket]
3c59x 28520 1
ipchains 43560 14
ide-cd 30272 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 32192 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
usb-uhci 24484 0 (unused)
usbcore 73152 1 [usb-uhci]
ext3 67136 2
jbd 49400 2 [ext3]

$ cardctl status

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

$ cardctl ident

Socket 0:
no product info available
function: 144 ((null))

$ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:E6:59:EA
inet addr:192.168.2.100 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5863 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:5609 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:5642952 (5.3 Mb) TX bytes:638811 (623.8 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2198 (2.1 Kb) TX bytes:2198 (2.1 Kb)


The basic problem is my card isnt even getting detected....dont know why this is happening.....

yes, cardctl can't even id it, nor can it determine it's purpose, which should be network. The "busy" thing is problematic, and I don't see where you have the orinoco_cs module loaded. As root, can you try modprobe orinoco_cs, (you're sure this is the right module?), also, can you post any relevant lines from your /var/log/messages that look like errors.