Lucent Silver 11mb, RG1000
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Aug 22 12:21:36 EST 2001
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:36:04AM -0700, Michael Perry wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I just compiled a 2.4.9 kernel to get support for my wireless card which
> is a silver 11mb. I have a RG1000 which does transparent bridging for me
> to my DSL connection at home. If I place a dlink card into my IBM
> Thinkpad 600e, I get two highbeeps, the hermes and orinoco, and
> orinoco_cs drivers load and my scheme runs for the IP address I want in
> my /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file. Wireless.opts works okay too.
>
> Here is some output with the dlink card loaded:
>
>
> CPU0
> 0: 115099 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 2315 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 3: 28 XT-PIC orinoco_cs
> 11: 12 XT-PIC Texas Instruments PCI1251A, Texas Instruments PCI1251A (#2)
> 14: 1594 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 3 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
> ERR: 0
>
> And the last few lines of my dmesg
>
> eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported.
> eth0: WEP supported, 40-bit key.
> eth0: MAC address 00:05:5D:F1:C9:58
> eth0: Station name "Prism I"
> eth0: ready
> eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
> eth0: Error -110 setting multicast list.
> eth0: Error -16 setting multicast list.
>
> Here is my exceedingly simple /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file
>
> case "$ADDRESS" in
> home,*,*,*)
> ESSID="my ESSID"
> MODE="managed"
> KEY="s:mykey"
> ;;
> esac
>
> I have a pretty basic config.opts file which excludes irq 7 only. All
> this works very well with my dlink card and hermes, orinoco, orinoco_cs
> get loaded like they should.
>
> Now if I place Orinoco Silver 11mb card in the laptop, I get a high-low
> beep combination which led me to believe its an irq issue. On 2.2.18,
> with the wavelan_cs drivers, teh card took irq 9. If I do a cardctl
> ident, the card is found. But when the card is slid in, hermes,
> orinoco, orinoco_cs do not load and I get the hi-low beep combo.
Can you send the full output from "cardctl ident" and also check your
logs (probably /var/log/messages) for any error messages from cardmgr.
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