As a previous poster about this card pleaded: help me save the rest of my hair! I've read so many posts about this card and tried various fixes, but no to avail and much newbie confusion.
First the specs: running feather (kernel 2.4.27; the same thing happened with damn small linux btw) on an old PI Toshiba 420CDT w/ 40M of RAM. The card is recognized and lit up nicely, which gives me hope. I'll post below the output of various commands. Would love any feedback / suggestions / help you can spare!
When I boot up with the wireless card inserted I get a string of "eth0: error -5..." and "eth0: error -10..." msgs. (...though I can usually avoid that by specifying nodhcp in the kernel boot options, though it looks like they're repeated in dmesg below.)
Here are the parameters I specified for the wireless setup utility:
essid: First Floor
nwid:
mode: Managed
channel:
frequency: 2.462G
key:
additional parameters: sens -80 rate 11M
iwspy eth0:
iwpriv eth0:
dhcp: yes
(the log in the shell of this utility gives at various places an "eth0SIOCSIFFLAGS: Input/output error" and finally "Operation failed." Though sometimes I get "OK. auto lo" and then the shell closes. After it says OK, here's the output of the following commands:
cardctl ident:
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "Belkin", "11Mbps Wireless Notebook Network Adapter", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"First Floor" Nickname:"Jalopytosheeb"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: <our AP!>
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption_key
ff
Power Management
ff
Link Quality=8/92 Signal level=-94dBm Noise level=-149dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig eth0:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hwaddr <our address!>
inet addr:<an assigned IP> Bcast:<correct address> Mask:255.255.255.0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:53895 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4840 (4.7 KiB) TX bytes:3710 (3.6 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
autofs4 8756 0 (unused)
serial 52068 0
af_packet 13544 0
orinoco_cs 4468 0
ds 6536 2 [orinoco_cs]
orinoco 32908 0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes 5124 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
i82365 12612 2
pcmcia_core 39840 0 [orinoco_cs ds i82365]
apm 9736 1
rtc 7004 0
ieee1394 183300 0 (unused)
ataraid 6404 0 (unused)
ide-cd 28704 0
ide-scsi 9072 0
dmsg:
<the msg. seems to time out because the beginning of it is cut off, then a string about 75 lines long with the error:>
eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
<with a slightly different error in the midst of that string:>
eth0: Error -110 setting multicast list.
<then the following:>
orinoco_lock() called with the hw_unavailable (dev=c2493000)
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=ffff, TXCOMPLFID=ffff, EVSTAT=ffff
orinoco_lock() called with the hw_unavailable (dev=c2493000)
eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)
eth0: Error -5 setting channel
eth0: Error -5 configuring card
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Can anyone tell me--apart from all the hair this card has cost me--what my problem is and how to fix it??? Thanks for all your help!