Orinoco Silver/Fujitsu E340 problem

[Jean Tourrilhes]

Milos Zefran wrote :
> Hi,
> 
>   I can not get Orinoco Silver card to work on my laptop. I am running RedHat 
> 7.1. I have tried kernel and stand-alone PCMCIA drivers, and several kernels 
> (2.4.9, Redhat packaged 2.4.9-6, 2.4.13) and the result is always the same: 
> either the driver fails to load properly, or the machine crashes. Here is what 
> I get in /var/log/messages if the machine doesn't crash:
> 
> Oct 24 22:55:37 ml cardmgr[605]: initializing socket 1
> Oct 24 22:55:37 ml cardmgr[605]: socket 1: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 
> Adapter
> Oct 24 22:55:37 ml cardmgr[605]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
> Oct 24 22:55:37 ml kernel: hermes_read_ltv(): rid  (0xfd20) does not match 
> type (0xffff)
> Oct 24 22:55:37 ml kernel: hermes @ 0x140: Truncating LTV record from 131068 
> to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0xffff)
> Oct 24 22:55:37 ml kernel: eth1: failed to read MAC address!
> Oct 24 22:55:37 ml kernel: orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed
> Oct 24 22:55:38 ml cardmgr[605]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: Resource 
> temporarily unavailable
> 
> Any suggestion would be welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
>          Milos

	Sounds like a ioport problem. Try to force the card to another
I/O region by adding the appropriate exclude directive in
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts.
	Also : tell us what firmware version it it.

	Jean