Orinoco Gold / Dell 7000 Driver Problem - Need Help
James L. Reese
jim at hosemore.net
Fri Oct 12 05:30:31 EST 2001
Hello all.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 7000 that I'm trying to make work with an
Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card. I need help.
This is a redhat 7.1 system, but I'm running kernel 2.4.9 compiled from
the kernel.org source tree. It is patched with the Win4Lin kernel patch.
I've tried the hermes/orinoco_cs driver that came with the kernel source
as well as the Lucent wavelan2_cs and cannot get the card to initialize.
I'd prefer to use the orinoco_cs driver, so I've removed all the stuff
related to the wavelan2_cs and here's what I get when plugging the card:
cardmgr[583]: socket 1: Lucent Technologies Wavelan/IEEE
cardmgr[583]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
cardmgr[583]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
kernel: eth1: Error -110 reading firmware info. Wildly guessing
capabilities...
kernel: hermes @ 0x100: CMD register busy in hermes_issue_command().
kernel: eth1: failed to read MAC address! kernel: orinoco_cs:
register_netdev() failed
cardmgr[583]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: Resource temporarily
unavailable
If I run 'cardctl ident' it correctly identifies the card when it is
inserted.
I'm using the kernel pcmcia and I have not tried disabling that and
loading pcmcia card services seperately from the kernel.
Any ideas? I'm stumped.
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