On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 12:55 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------- ---- that would seem to be sufficient info for a bugzilla report to the kernel and they could probably fix it. I doubt too many people are trying to use such old hardware with current versions of Fedora given the memory requirements and speed of the hardware. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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
