Orinoco Gold / Dell 7000 Driver Problem - Need Help

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:30:31PM -0500, James L. Reese wrote:
> 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.

I can't be sure, but this looks very much like a problem in the PCMCIA
layer - the card doesn't appear to be responding to anything the
driver is trying to do.  I'd try the David Hinds PCMCIA package.

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