Problem with Gold card

[mwbogus at yahoo.com]

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...

Thanks for the info!

Matthew

Full thread below:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog at svana.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 8:28 PM
> To: mwbogus at yahoo.com
> Cc: wireless at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with Gold card
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:05:02PM -0500, mwbogus at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Hello, I have been using the three gold cards with the wvlan_cs
> driver with
> > no difficulties for quite some time now. But, I upgraded the
> firmware to 8.1
> > to take advantage of the avoidance of the weak initialization vector
> > weakness in WEP. After that, my wireless network will not work after a
> > period of time, sometimes hours, sometimes minutes.
>
> Are these orinoco gold cards? I upgraded an orinoco solver to
> that firmware
> and had no problems at all.
>
> > It seems like the keys are no longer in synch or something. The
> only way to
> > get the network working again is to either reset the encryption key
> > (sometimes doesn't work) or stop and restart the pcmcia card
> and then reset
> > the wavelan parameters using iwconfig.
>
> Any messages in the syslog?
>
> > Anyway, I was wondering if the new orinoco_cs driver is capable
> of working
> > with this new hardware? Has anyone had any success or
> experiences with this
> > new firmware and the current orinoco_cs driver contained in the latest
> > kernel?
>
> New hardware? The orinoco gold has been out for ages and does seem to work
> really well. The only place I don't use it is on an old machine
> because the
> orinoco driver doesn't work on 2.2.
>
> The one in recent kernels is pretty up-to-date, but you can
> always grab the
> latest from the web.
>
> HTH,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org>
> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take
> my freedom.


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