Getting nowhere with orinoco_plx and Compaq WL-100

[Lenz Grimmer]

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Hi there,

I have been struggling with this setting this up for quite a while now and I 
simply ran out of ideas now. I am trying to set up a wireless network using 
two Compaq WL-100 cards. I wanted to stick one in my Laptop (Toshiba Portege 
3440CT) and the other one in my desktop PC (Gigabyte GA7DXR mainboard), using 
a PCI adapter (NetGear MA-301). I am now at the point where I think that I 
have two broken cards, but I wanted to get some other input first. I will try 
it with the one in the desktop PC first - this is SuSE Linux with Kernel 
2.4.19 and orinoco_plx.c 0.11b. I tried the 0.12x driver as well, but it did 
not really change the result.

At first it seems like the driver detects the card just fine, but then it 
fails mysteriously:

root at kallisto:~ # modprobe orinoco_plx
/lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o:
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o: insmod
orinoco_plx failed
 
/var/log/messages:

Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: hermes.c: 5 Apr 2002 David Gibson 
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: orinoco.c 0.11b (David Gibson 
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: orinoco_plx.c 0.11b (Daniel Barlow 
<dan at telent.net>)
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.0
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 01:05.0
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: orinoco_plx: CIS: 
5A01:D103:8F00:D000:1FFF:4017:FA04:B467:8F5A:5008:5BFF:721D:1105:E003:267:325A:
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PLX device at 00:0c.0 
irq:10, io addr:0xe400
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: Station identity 001f:0000:0000:0008
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 
0.08
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode 
supported
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:50:8B:99:B7:24
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: hermes @ IO 0xe400: Timeout waiting for 
command completion.
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: eth1: failed to read channel list!
Aug 22 20:38:47 kallisto kernel: orinoco_plx: init_one(), FAIL!

Does anyone have a clue what might go wrong here? Is there a way to get some 
more debug output?

Bye,
	LenZ
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