Orinoco issue...

[=brian]

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply.

>On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:40:09AM -1000, =brian wrote:
>
> > I think my set up is pretty generic:
> > Road Runner standard cable modem
> > Linksys BEFW11S4 access point / switch / router
> > Orinoco Gold (firmware updated to 8.1)
> > ThinkPad 600x w/ lots of RAM  (recently updated BIOS)
> >
> > Wireless works fine under Win2k pro.
> >
> > Installed RedHat 7.2, laptop configuration, w/ the 2.4.7-10 kernel.
> > (Set to dual boot w/ Win2kPro.)
> >
> > I ask myself:
> >
> > Is PCMCIA working?
> > Is the Orinoco detected and identified correctly?
> > Am I loading the right driver?
> > Is TCP/IP configured right?
> > What else should I be asking?
>
>Telling us what's actually wrong might be a good start.

Good point, I should know better.  Eventually, I would like to use 
DHCP.  Right now, I can't ping the router.  The Network Configuration 
application doesn't find any ethernet device.  When I try to add one, it 
can't find my card.  (It does allow me to add many other cards.)


> > [dseg reports that wvlan_cs is being loaded, instead of orinoco_cs.]
>
>It does. To load the orinoco driver, copy hermes.conf
>(http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/hermes.conf) into /etc/pcmcia.

I did this and it made no apparent difference in the output from dseg.

from dseg:
----
...
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.7
wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy at fasta.fh-dortmund.de>
wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth0
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 02 2d 2e 0c 47
wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8000A (vendor 1) - Firmware capabilities : 1-2-1-1-1
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 02 2d 2e 0c 47
wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8000A (vendor 1) - Firmware capabilities : 1-2-1-1-1
wvlan_cs: Valid channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:06.0
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There must be more than just copying the file to /etc/pcmcia.  Do I have to 
chmod it or something?  What else am I missing?

Do I have to change config.opts?  network.opts?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

aloha,
=brian