Problem with Gold card

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Sun Feb 3 21:23:51 EST 2002


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:35:12PM -0500, mwbogus at yahoo.com wrote:
> Answers to your questions:
> > Are these orinoco gold cards? I upgraded an orinoco solver to
> > that firmwareand had no problems at all.
> Yes, all Orinoco gold cards.
> 
> > Any messages in the syslog?
> Nope. Happily working away sending packets noone else understands. It is
> only the Linux machine by the way that can't communicate with the other two
> windows machines.
> 
> > The only place I don't use it is on an old machine because the
> > orinoco driver doesn't work on 2.2.
> Sounds like the 2.4 kernel is the way to go. I will be attempting to
> upgrade, as I am on the 2.2 kernel right now...

The version of the orinoco driver that David Hinds ported to the
pcmcia-cs package (included from 3.1.30 onwards) should work on 2.2,
although some behaviour may be slightly different.

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