Re: PCMCIA configuration

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> 
> Grr...
> I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work.
>  I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is,
> I'm no longer able to sort it out myself.
> 
> >From the syslog, it appears that the encryption is no longer valid.  This
> is confusing because I haven't changed anything (that I know of) for
> well over a year.  I've checked the access point and it's working and
> such...
> 
> help?
> 
> Between
> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
> /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
> /etc/network/ifconfig
> 
> I'm not getting anything to work.  the card doesn't appear to load at
> all or only partially.

I have a very similar problem with an Orinoco PCMCIA card.  There were
a number of suggestions here a couple of weeks ago,  and on
debian-laptop just afterwards, but no solution yet.  One thing I haven't
yet tried is getting the latest driver.

Does your card connect if you temporarily turn off encryption at the
access point?  Mine does (by manual 'ifup eth0').  If it does we may
have the same complaint...

-- 
richard