orinoco 0.9b + pcmcia-cs scripts

[Ben Greear]

Try putting in a hack to ifconfig eth1 up.

It seems that you have to do that before many of the iwconfig
settings will actually take.

(Which may be why it works when you do it manually..)

Steve Beattie wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get a ZCOMAX AirRunner/XI-300 (prism2 based) working in IBSS
> mode with the 2.2 kernel and pcmcia-cs drivers. The orinoco 0.8 driver
> included in pcmcia-cs >= 3.1.29 sort of works -- it works enough to give
> me connectivity to my DSL line; however, transferring large amounts of
> data causes the driver to fall over without any error messages, and the
> only way it will start to work again is to reload the driver.
> 
> I took the orinoco 0.9b drivers and merged them into the pcmcia-cs 3.1.30
> package, while attempting to keep David Hinds' small changes intact.
> Alas, I've run into a problem. In orinoco.c::orinoco_ioctl(), before
> performing the switch based on the passed in ioctl, there's a test to
> see if the hardware is ready:
> 
>         if (! netif_device_present(dev))
>                 return -ENODEV;
> 
> This used to be (in the 0.8 driver):
> 
>         if (!priv->hw_ready)
>                 return -ENODEV;
> 
> Unfortunately, this change appears to break the pcmcia-cs scripts, as
> when the card is inserted, I get messages like:
> 
> Feb 20 07:46:33 lizaveta cardmgr[2013]: + /sbin/iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc
> Feb 20 07:46:33 lizaveta cardmgr[2013]: + SIOCSIWMODE: No such device
> Feb 20 07:46:34 lizaveta cardmgr[2013]: + /sbin/iwconfig eth1 rate auto
> Feb 20 07:46:34 lizaveta cardmgr[2013]: + SIOCSIWRATE: No such device
> Feb 20 07:46:34 lizaveta cardmgr[2013]: + /sbin/iwconfig eth1 key off
> Feb 20 07:46:34 lizaveta cardmgr[2013]: + SIOCSIWENCODE(19): No such device
> 
> However, I don't get "No such device" errors if I run iwconfig manually
> after cardmgr has finished setting up the device; alas, I can't get
> iwconfig to get the ZCOMAX card to change frequency channels and it
> defaults to a different channel than the rest of my 802.11b devices are
> using. I did test it with a orinoco silver card and I get the same errors
> reported from cardmgr, but the default settings the silver card chooses
> ends up working with the other wireless cards and the driver appears to
> work fine with it (unfortunately I need to use the ZCOMAX card).
> 
> Simple hacks, like adding "sleep 5" to the beginning of the
> pcmcia/wireless script, didn't help. Changing orinoco_ioctl() to use the
> (!priv->hw_ready) doesn't work because the hw_ready element no longer
> exists. 
> 
> Any ideas? More details provided on request. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 


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