Re: PCMCIA configuration
On 1/15/2006, "Richard Lyons" <richard@the-place.net> wrote:
>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From the syslog, it appears that the encryption is no longer valid.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...
>
>--Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: hostap_cs: setting Vcc=50 (from config)
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default
0x01)
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1
dflt.io.nwin=1
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000,
len=64
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3,
io 0x0100-0x013f
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: prism2_hw_init: initialized in 40 ms
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: NIC: id=0x01 v4.2.1
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v4.4.1
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v7.28.1
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost cardmgr[7737]: socket 1: Lucent Technologies
WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: CMD=0x0121 => res=0x7f,
resp0=0x0004
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: hfa384x_set_rid:
CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=127, rid=fc33, len=2)
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: Beacon interval setting to 100
failed
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: CMD=0x0121 => res=0x7f,
resp0=0x0004
Jan 15 11:30:03 localhost kernel: wifi0: hfa384x_set_rid:
CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=127, rid=fc10, len=2)
I tried that with no luck.
I'm beginning to think that I'm in that nasty realm of either the card
is NFG or the drivers are buggy. This is one of the best cards I've
owned.
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