I am using an MA311 with the orinoco_pci drivers, version .13e. I am getting alot of this message in my log:

Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP

If I enable 64bit (I haven't tried 128 bit yet) WEP, it will cause the card to "lock" making me rmmod and modprobe the orinoco_pci module. This only happens under heavy use, ie: iso downloading and such. But it happens with or without WEP, it just seems a tad more common with WEP. I will admit that my signal quality isn't the best (24/92) but it does work with "other" OSes just fine

I also tried the wlan-ng drivers but found them harder to install and configure. I had similar results with them as well.

Does anyone know a preferable driver for the MA311? I will try the wlan-ng's if someone has had better luck with them, but for now, I am out of ideas for my wireless net.

I have used wireless nics on linux in the past, and have had a similar problem with the orinoco drivers. They are still very much under active development, and I found that after updating the drivers, problems such as the sudden lockup were solved.

Get the latest stable from here , and your problems may be solved.

Goodluck,
Andrew

well, at the moment I am using 13e's aren't they the newest?

I switched to wlan-ng's (again) and have been having much better success with them.

The 110 issue has been more or less knocked out with the switch to the .13 series, e is stable, heck that's how I'm typing this. .13b or c I think is what made it into 2.4.21, but compiling the drivers seperately is really clean, there's a link to the source in my links section in my profile.

Cheers,

Finegan

hmm...I wonder why the .13e's don't like me?

So far the only luck I have had is with wlan-ng. I have had them up for 12+ hours and downloaded about 350 MB's. I couldn't download a kernel without the 13e's barfing MAD 110's!

I like the setup of the orinoco_pci better than the way wlan-ng handles it, so I would rather use them. Plus it makes my kernel boot tidier

Hey, whatever works the best with your hardware, go for it!

You might want to try the host_ap drivers, they handle ibss and bss (er... ad-hoc and managed), just as well, they USE the kernel api, so "iwconfig" and the like work on them, and when your bored you can config the card up to be an access point.


Cheers,

Finegan

host_ap eh? that truly sounds interesting....I didn't know my card could function as an AP!

thanks

Hi
I am having the same problem with the Orinoco drivers in RH9. Can you tell me

1) How to tell which version of the driver is running now?
2) I managed to download the latest 13e version (and by following the instructions compile it etc)
3) tried to download the wlan stuff - but I am running an Athlon kernel and RH9 out of the box. There seems to be a problem with the files (the MD5 doesn't match).


Thanks

Ash

This is happening to me now with my Lucent Technologies Orinoco 11Mbit/s SILVER card. Mad -110 errors. I am running Redhat 9. How do I find out what version of the drivers I have?

You're running RH 9, so... kernel 2.4.20, that means version .11b, that's strange though, this error is specific to firmware in the prism series. You have an orinoco... What's the chunk of the command:

dmesg

at the very end, right after you load the card?

Cheers,

Finegan

I updated the driver, and the messages are gone. I now have this message:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

Determining IP information for eth1...PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1)
56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms , pipe 3 failed.

1. I still have the 1st error message...

2. It looks like it reached out for some DHCP action while I was at my friend's house (Neither error came up till I accually got home), and remembered the stats. The problem we had while at my friend's house was that we were getting no DNS info. Any idea why?

Would the command: dhcpcd -H be needed in this case? If so, I'll try once I'm near an access point again..