Orinoco PCI Adapter + Lucent Wireless Card Issue

[Simran H.]

Hi Guys,

I have been trying to get this to work for a couple of days without any 
progress.  I am running RedHat 8.0 and purchased a Orinoco PCI adapter 
and I am using my pcmcia lucent wireless card.  Sometimes it will work 
without any issues and everything looks okay,  I am able to ping my 
other hosts and reach the internet and all my services are working fine. 
 Other times, it wont even detect the card: ifconfig eth1 up come up 
with an error saying eth1: unknown interface: No such device.  I also 
get 2 different kinds of errors in my log files:

Mar  1 13:11:16 kuldipmanak pcmcia:  cardmgr.
Mar  1 13:11:16 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: starting, version is 3.1.31
Mar  1 13:11:16 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: config error, file 'config' 
line 1053: syntax error
Mar  1 13:11:16 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: config error, file 'config' 
line 2129: no function bindings
Mar  1 13:11:16 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
Mar  1 13:11:16 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: exiting

_____

Mar  1 13:17:14 kuldipmanak pcmcia:  cardmgr.
Mar  1 13:17:14 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: starting, version is 3.1.31
Mar  1 13:17:14 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: config error, file 'config' 
line 1053: syntax error
Mar  1 13:17:14 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: config error, file 'config' 
line 2129: no function bindings
Mar  1 13:17:14 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: watching 1 sockets
Mar  1 13:17:14 kuldipmanak cardmgr[606]: Card Services release does not 
match

_____

At times I also get:
Mar  1 12:55:12 kuldipmanak kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded!

Could any of this be related to how far my card is from the wireless 
point?  Should not be but I am not sure.  Any ideas as to what might be 
wrong or how I can go about fixing this problem?  Any suggestions or 
comments are grately appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Simran H.