Avaya/Lucent Orinoco PCI LAN card

[Timothy Murphy]

This is probably a very elementary question,
but I'm not quite sure how to set up this card.
I have the Avaya card in my desktop ("alfred"),
and an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card in my laptop ("william").
The Avaya card consists of a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor
together with a (removable) Avaya PCMCIA card. 

I'd be very grateful for any advice or instructions
on the proper procedure.

I should admit at this point that my desktop has PCI-2.1.
I read somewhere that the Avaya PCI card would only work with PCI-2.2
(at least under Linux).
However, I don't think that is the problem on my desktop.
(Also, when I looked up the specs for the card on the web,
it explicitly said that the card worked under PCI-2.1 and 2.2.)

I followed the advice I saw somewhere on the web,
and installed the driver and other software
in wavelan2_cs-6.16Avaya.tar.gz .
(I'm using the standard orinoco_cs module
from linux-2.4.20-pre1 in the laptop.
I should say that the laptop with the Orinoco card
works perfectly with an Airport Access Point.)

The upshot of this is that the appropriate interface (eth2)
comes up on the desktop, as shown below.

Furthermore, there seems to be some communication between the two computers,
since the desktop gives the laptop's MAC address under "Access Point"
when run in Managed mode.

=========== desktop data =============
Script started on Thu Aug 15 14:41:14 2002
[tim at alfred tim]$ iwconfig eth2
Warning : Device eth2 has been compiled with version 0
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
Some things may be broken...

eth2      Wireless  ESSID:"maths.tcd.ie"  Nickname:"alfred.murphy.ie"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457GHz  Access Point: 02:02:2D:3F:2D:4D
          Sensitivity:1/3  
          RTS thr:off   
          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-102 dBm  Noise level:-102 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

[tim at alfred tim]$ ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:4A:52:80  
          inet addr:192.168.2.1  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:1106 (1.0 Kb)  TX bytes:294 (294.0 b)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100 

[tim at alfred tim]$ su
Password: 
[root at alfred tim]# iwconfig eth2 mode Ad-hoc
[root at alfred tim]# exit
exit
[tim at alfred tim]$ iwconfig eth2
Warning : Device eth2 has been compiled with version 0
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
Some things may be broken...

eth2      Wireless  ESSID:"maths.tcd.ie"  Nickname:"alfred.murphy.ie"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.457GHz  Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Sensitivity:1/3  
          RTS thr:off   
          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-102 dBm  Noise level:-102 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

[tim at alfred tim]$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
c104-1.bas1.prp *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.2.0     *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth2
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
10.0.0.0        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         c104-107.bas1.p 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0
default         c104-1.bas1.prp 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0
[tim at alfred tim]$ exit
exit

Script done on Thu Aug 15 14:42:30 2002
======================================

=========== laptop data ==============
Script started on Thu Aug 15 14:45:42 2002
[tim at william tim]$ iwconfig eth0
Warning : Device eth0 has been compiled with version 13
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 11.
Some things may be broken...

eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"maths.tcd.ie"  Nickname:"william"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.457GHz  Cell: 02:02:2D:3F:2D:4D
          Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3  
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

[tim at william tim]$ ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:3F:2D:4D  
          inet addr:192.168.2.5  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19 errors:11 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:144 (144.0 b)  TX bytes:3984 (3.8 Kb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x180 

[tim at william tim]$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.2.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         alfred.wireless 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
[tim at william tim]$ exit

Script done on Thu Aug 15 14:46:06 2002
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-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: 00353-86-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland