Ok, I posted in the wireless forum and have been working with 2Gnu (who has been very informative) but unfortunately we have not solved my problem.
I have a compaq presario 2140 laptop and I downloaded and installed Fedora 5. Everything seems to work fine except my wireless pcmcia card and my touchpad is pretty quirky. The touchpad aside, I REALLY need to figure out my wireless card. 2Gnu has established that I have an original Orinoco Gold Classic card with the hermes/Orinoco_cs chipset/driver:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...02#post2474902. This card/chipset is supposedly nearly plug and play with Linux?
The problem: I think I have the right drivers/modules loaded but the system locks and/or refuses to work with this wireless card. If I plug the card in at boot-time the OS hangs right after the second line after it says “push I for interactive startup” and udev starts loading. If I plug the card in after the OS is loaded and then I type pccardctl insert the computer will again freeze. The only way to fix at that point is to eject the card are do a hard reboot.
2Gnu told me it could be a conflict with the bios/acpi settings. I am not real familiar with acpi or apm settings and even less so in Linux. After being told that, and doing some research on the subject, this sounds like a real possibility. Unfortunately I need step by step advice and how to deal with it.
I’ve included various, hopefully informative output of a few pertinent commands:
here is what my lsmod output reads:
Module Size Used by
autofs4 21573 1
hidp 16193 2
rfcomm 37849 0
l2cap 23873 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 50085 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 153725 1
orinoco_cs 8013 0
orinoco 40405 1 orinoco_cs
hermes 7745 2
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 3393 0
ipt_REJECT 5697 1
xt_state 2625 2
ip_conntrack 52085 2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink 7513 1 ip_conntrack
xt_tcpudp 3521 4
iptable_filter 3392 1
ip_tables 12937 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 14405 4 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
video 17221 0
sbs 16257 0
ibm_acpi 27969 0
i2c_ec 5569 1 sbs
container 4801 0
button 7249 0
battery 10565 0
asus_acpi 16857 0
ac 5701 0
radeon 105569 1
drm 68437 2 radeon
ipv6 246113 12
lp 13065 0
parport_pc 27493 1
parport 37001 2 lp,parport_pc
floppy 57317 0
ohci_hcd 21341 0
joydev 9857 0
snd_ali5451 23501 1
snd_ac97_codec 91360 1 snd_ali5451
snd_ac97_bus 2753 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy 4293 0
snd_seq_oss 32705 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8001 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 51633 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8781 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42849 0
snd_mixer_oss 16833 1 snd_pcm_oss
i2c_ali1535 7237 0
i2c_ali15x3 8005 0
snd_pcm 76485 3 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
ide_cd 38625 2
i2c_core 21697 3 i2c_ec,i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali15x3
snd_timer 23237 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
serio_raw 7493 0
natsemi 28193 0
snd 52933 11 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_ timer
cdrom 34913 1 ide_cd
soundcore 10145 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10569 1 snd_pcm
pcspkr 3521 0
dm_snapshot 17389 0
dm_zero 2369 0
dm_mirror 28817 0
dm_mod 56921 12 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ext3 129737 2
jbd 58473 1 ext3
Here is my /etc/modprobe.conf file:
alias wlan0 orinoco_cs
alias eth0 natsemi
alias snd-card-0 snd-ali5451
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-ali5451 index=0
remove snd-ali5451 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/mmodprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ali5451
Here is the output for iwconfig
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
Output of lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 01)
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1
If I launch net configurator - neat, listed are eth0, and wlan0. eth0 is active, of course, and wlan0 is not. If I try to activate wlan0 I get: orinoco_cs device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
ntpr11ag invalid driver!
ifconfig only lists stats for eth0 and loopback
[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device
[root@localhost pcmciautils-014]# pccardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
I don't think I changed the boot file properly; I wasn't sure exactly where to insert the pc=noacpi option. My line looks different then the insertion 2Gnu showed in his example: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda6 ro pci=noacpi. I was trying to disable ACPI services (I think) to see if that affected the lockup situation. Here is a snippet of the /boot/grub/menu.lst file that he told me to modify.
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2200.fc5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 ro
pci=noacpi root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
title Windows XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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I would like to thank 2Gnu for all the help. I am hoping someone else might see this, have had a similar problem, and know exactly what is going on.