Orinoco and RH 7.2: close but no cigar

[Mike Starnes]

Hi Timothy,

I did find orinoco_cs.o under
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/. I  finally had success with
wvlan_cs but still have to use iwconfig to set freq and encryption key and have
to manually bring up eth0 and do "route add default gw 192.168.1.1" after every
reboot. If I get those settings to stick maybe I'll be happy. What am I missing
by not using orinoco_cs?

Is your driver compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module? Doesn't iwconfig
work only on drivers loaded as modules?

Regards,

Mike

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:43:18PM -0600, Mike Starnes wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying for some time to get an Orinoco Gold card to work on a Dell
> > Latitude with a linux OS. Tried Mandrake 7.2 for a while then recently installed
> > Red Hat 7.2 with a stock 2.4.7-10 kernel.
> 
> > Am I correct in assuming it's almost working? Hoping to get this working without
> > recompiling the kernel or installing a new pcmcia package or orinoco_cs.
> 
> Isn't the orinoco_cs module present in this kernel
> (in /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/net/orinoco_cs.o)?
> 
> I tested my Orinoco Gold card with this kernel,
> and it seemed to work perfectly.
> I edited /etc/pcmcia/config to use orinoco_cs:
> 
> ==================================
> card "Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter"
>   version "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE"
> #  bind "wvlan_cs"
>   bind "orinoco_cs"
> ==================================
> 
> and also edited /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts to turn off encryption,
> set the mode to Managed (possibly not appropriate for you),
> and a couple of other changes:
> 
> ==================================
> # Lucent Wavelan IEEE (+ Orinoco, RoamAbout and ELSA)
> # Melco/Buffalo Networks WLI-PCM-L11
> # Note : wvlan_cs driver only, and version 1.0.4+ for encryption support
> *,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:02:2D:*)
> #    INFO="Wavelan IEEE example (Lucent default settings)"
>     INFO="Wavelan IEEE (settings for william)"
> #    ESSID="Wavelan Network"
>     ESSID="maths.tcd.ie"
> #    MODE="Ad-Hoc"
>     MODE="Managed"
> #    RATE="auto"
> #    KEY="s:secu1"
>     ENC=off
> # To set all four keys, use :
> #   KEY="s:secu1 [1] key s:secu2 [2] key s:secu3 [3] key s:secu4 [4] key [1]"
> # For the RG 1000 Residential Gateway: The ESSID is the identifier on
> # the unit, and the default key is the last 5 digits of the same.
> #   ESSID="084d70"
> #   KEY="s:84d70"
>     ;;
> ==================================
> 
> Iwconfig didn't seem able to change these settings with this kernel.
> 
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> tel: 086-233 6090
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland