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Re: Troubleshooting 802.11b wireless

It's the wrong driver. You're using the driver for an Agere/Proxim/Orinoco card, i.e. "Hermes" on a card built with the Prism2.5 chipset. You probably want the linux-wlan-ng drivers. 

Check these links:
http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/linux-wlan-ng
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/

Have fun!

joe

Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:


I'm trying to get a brand new Prism 2.5 based 802.11b wireless ethernet
card to work with Linux 2.6.3 (Netgear MA311) on Sid.

The wireless-tools package installed.

When I insert the required drivers into the kernel (orinoco_pci,
orinoco, and hermes), I get these messages:

orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean
Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:0b.0
Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:02:0b.0, mem:0xF47FF000 to
0xF47FFFFF -> 0xe080d000, irq:11
Reset done..<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=d2f03800)
.............<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=d2f03800)
(repeated 17 more times)

Clear Reset.....<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable
(dev=d2f03800)
.............<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=d2f03800)
(repeated 20-something more times)
.;
pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - 75286D9 - 75284E5
orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=d2f03800)
(repeated 13 more times)

eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:09:5B:67:95:0D
eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=d2f03800)
eth1: ready


With /etc/network/interfaces set up thus:
iface eth1 inet dhcp
name Wireless Ethernet LAN Card
       wireless_essid 203cfr
       wireless_mode managed
       wireless_channel 6
       wireless_ap auto

ifup eth1 gives me this output:
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
   SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:09:5b:67:95:0d
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:09:5b:67:95:0d
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7

DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Sleeping.

After rebooting and trying again, I got several of this error instead:
hermes @ MEM 0xe090a000: Error -16 issuing command.
hermes @ MEM 0xe090a000: Error -16 issuing command.
hermes @ MEM 0xe090a000: Error -16 issuing command.
which repeated until I ran `modprobe -r orinoco_pci`

So, can anyone help me debug this problem?  The card works fine under
Windows XP on the same machine.

Thanks,
Jonathan Brandmeyer
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