SUMMARY: Re: Orinoco PCI Adapter + Lucent Wireless Card Issue

[Simran H.]

Solved this problem by moving the card to a different PCI slot and 
everything seems to be working fine.

-simran

Simran H. wrote:

> 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.
>
>