Newbie question: orinoco 0.12, RedHat 7.3, Linksys WPC11 v3

Michel van der List michel at vanderlist.com
Fri Jun 21 22:09:59 EST 2002


Hello.

In my wonderings around the net, I ran into this mailing
list, which seems to have a lot of good info, including
some describing my problem, but using other hardware.

I hope this is the right forum to ask my question, if not,
I apologize.

I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC11 v3 card (which works in
my [work] W2K box) to work with my Thinkpad 600X running
RedHat 7.3, updated with the latest RH kernel, 2.4.18-4.
I'm using a pcmcia card for wired ethernet access, and it
all works flawlessly (so I'm presuming PCMCIA itself is
not the problem). I've downloaded/compiled/installed
the orinoco-0.12 distro.

My wireless configuration looks like this:
    # Pick up any Access Point, should work on most 802.11 cards
    Linksys,*,*,*)
        INFO="Linksys"
        CHANNEL="6"
        ESSID="myWAP"
        MODE="Managed"    
        KEY="s:mypassword"
        ;;

After I insert the card, I see the following:

    # dmesg
    ....
    hermes.c: 7 Jun 2002 David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    orinoco.c 0.12 (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
    orinoco_cs.c 0.12 (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
    eth0: Station identity 001f:0004:0001:0003
    eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.4
    eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
    eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
    eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
    eth0: MAC address 00:06:25:A8:3B:05
    eth0: Station name "Prism  I"
    eth0: ready
    eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
    eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped.
    eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
    eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
    eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
    eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
    eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
        
    # tail /var/log/messages
    ....
    Jun 20 17:11:03 MichelTP600X cardmgr[776]: initializing
socket 0
    Jun 20 17:11:03 MichelTP600X cardmgr[776]: socket 0:
Linksys Wireless
    Jun 20 17:11:03 MichelTP600X cardmgr[776]: executing:
'modprobe orinoco_cs'
    Jun 20 17:11:03 MichelTP600X cardmgr[776]: executing:
'./network start eth0'
    Jun 20 17:11:04 MichelTP600X /etc/hotplug/net.agent:
invoke ifup eth0
    Jun 20 17:11:04 MichelTP600X kernel: eth0: error -5
reading info frame. Frame dropped.
    Jun 20 17:11:04 MichelTP600X kernel: eth0: Error -110
writing Tx descriptor to BAP
    Jun 20 17:11:04 MichelTP600X last message repeated 4 times
    
Things unfortunately don't work. I have a few questions.

0. Am I completely misreading all documentation and should
   I go back and RTFM?
1. Looking through the code, it doesn't tell me a whole lot,
   other than that the first error appears to be an IO error.
   -110 is a timeout presumably? What do these error codes
   actually mean?
2. Is there anything I can do to help make this card work?
3. Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Michel
Michel.RemoveThis at AndThis.vanderlist.com




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