problems with Orinoco Silver on a Dell X200 with RedHat 7.3.

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:25:05PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> 
>   I've upgraded pcmcia-cs to 3.1.34, and I've tried to upgrade the
>   orinoco_cs-driver to 0.11b, but I get some unresolved symbols[1] and
>   I'd rather like to not have to compile a new kernel for this
>   machine.  there are enough gotchas with it as it is.  :)
> 
>   when I insert the card I get:
>  
> cardmgr[764]: socket 0: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
> cardmgr[764]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
> cardmgr[764]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
> cardmgr[764]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
> cardmgr[764]: executing: './network start eth1'
> /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1
> kernel: eth1: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped.
> kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=00BF)
> dhcpcd[1769]: recvfrom: Network is down 
> 
>   now, if there are no other solutions I'll look to compiling a new
>   kernel, but I hoped someone might know what this is beforehand.
>   there aren't any interrupt-collisions either, the card has IRQ 3 all
>   on it's own.  now, the sending led goes pretty wild when looking for
>   a DHCP-host, it blinks _very_ rapidly.  the other led is just on
>   constantly, which is normal behavior as far as I know. 
> 
>   if there are any other tidbits of information that can be of help,
>   please let me know.
> 
>   [1] the unresolved symbols when using orinoco_cs version 0.11b.

Sounds like a CONFIG_MODVERSIONS problem.  Check the FAQ in
README.orinoco.

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