Craig White wrote: >> I have been trying to get an ancient Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card >> working under ndiswrapper, but I discovered after some "research" >> that ndiswrapper did not create *.conf files >> matching the ID 0342:0006 of my card (as listed by lshal). ... >> If anyone has a suggestion how to get this card working under Fedora-14 >> I should be most grateful. > ---- > I don't have a suggestion except that I used to have a laptop and a > silver Orinoco card and it was supported out of the box - way back... > perhaps Fedora Core 2. It was one of the very few wireless cards that > was supported by Linux back then. Yes, IIRC orinoco_cs worked until Fedora-12. I don't think it worked in Fedora-13. > Now it's entirely possible that support for the hardware has been > removed from the kernel (I'm too lazy to check now) but it strikes me > that trying to futz with ndiswrapper to make it work is probably crazy. Orinoco_cs is still in the kernel, and is the module found when the card is inserted. But this usually (85% of the time) causes a kerneloop. Surprisingly, it works 15% of the time. But re-booting 8 times is rather a nuisance. Incidentally, the reason I'm using the card is that it is part of a PCI-to-PCMCIA combination in an ancient Asus K8V system (in my grand-daughter's bedroom). It also has a rather good extension to a large antenna. I have to confess that this machine usually runs under Windows XP, which supports the Orinoco cards; but I'd like to try it under Linux if that is possible. > Just wondering... did you ever modprobe for the orinoco (IIRC, it was > called orinoco_cs but don't trust my memory). As I recall, the Orinoco > silver was only capable of 40 bit WEP which is about as useful as tits > on a nun. What about dmesg? Did it give you anything meaningful? I don't mind WEP. I used to be paranoid, but I've been cured by drinking Guinness... For those (not me) who understand such things, the backtrace reads: --------------------------------------------- [tim@helen kerneloops-1295409320-1410-1]$ cat backtrace WARNING: at net/wireless/core.c:633 wdev_cleanup_work+0x41/0x97 [cfg80211]() Hardware name: 1871Y81 Modules linked in: sit tunnel4 michael_mic orinoco_cs orinoco cfg80211 nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq mperf ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput snd_intel8x0m snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus ppdev parport_pc snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm thinkpad_acpi parport iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support tg3 nsc_ircc rfkill snd_timer joydev snd i2c_i801 soundcore snd_page_alloc irda microcode crc_ccitt yenta_socket i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core video output [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Pid: 2973, comm: cfg80211 Not tainted 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686 #1 Call Trace: [<c0439435>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x7f [<f825540a>] ? wdev_cleanup_work+0x41/0x97 [cfg80211] [<c043945e>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x18 [<f825540a>] wdev_cleanup_work+0x41/0x97 [cfg80211] [<c044acba>] worker_thread+0x141/0x1b8 [<f82553c9>] ? wdev_cleanup_work+0x0/0x97 [cfg80211] [<c044df72>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [<c044ab79>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1b8 [<c044dc2d>] kthread+0x64/0x69 [<c044dbc9>] ? kthread+0x0/0x69 [<c04038fe>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 --------------------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
