Re: PCMCIA configuration

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2006, Richard Lyons 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 From the syslog, it appears that the encryption is no longer valid.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...
> >
> > --
> > richard
>
>
> This may not be relevant,  but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet
> 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you
> have upgraded this recently you could try going back to the version in
> Stable.
>
> Anthony

Similarly, I reset my apt_preferences from unstable to testing.
purged everything related to pcmcia and wireless.
reinstalled pcmcia-cs and wireless tools.
Now it works.

kernel 2.6.15.

I'm thinking there might be a big fat hairy bug when whatever is in 
unstable gets into testing....  Unfortunately my installation, until 
today, was rather spread out between testing and unstable.  That's been 
remedied as I can no longer afford this to be an unstable branch.  I 
need it to work.
I would downgrade to stable if I could, but I have a few other packages 
that I need in testing, so this is as far as I dare go.