orinoco and monitor mode

Treiks · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 82

I have two cards based on orinoco chipset. Both working well in monitor mode in WindowsXP. In my gentoo box
card with
1) Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.10
after running kismet in syslog I got:
eth1: Monitor mode support is buggy in ths firware, not enabling
and Kisment report wrong driver
2) Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 6.16
works well in monitor mode with Kisment.

I wanna sold out 6.16 and I wonder if exist any chance to make my 8.10 software to work in monitor mode (i remeber that with 2.4 kernel it was working)?
(ebuild orinoco-0.15_rc3-r1)

vladgrigorescu · Guru Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 360

Anything interesting in dmesg?

slestak · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 115

try with a kernel no newer than 2.6.10-r10.

That is the last kernel where my orinoco driver works.

Even with recompiles, make cleans, whatnot, current orinoco reports 'orinoco_cs lacks a requisite callback function'

and dmesg reports that pcmcia_cs interface is soon to be changed

However, all is well with that 2.6.10 and 3 wifi cards I have used, an orinoco gold, silver, and linksys prism based.

Sodom · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject:

After wasting hours of time trying to get the monitor mode working again with newer kernels than 2.6.13 I found the following page:
http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmahh/orinoco.html

My Setup:

Orinoco Chipset
Firmware Agere 8.10
kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5

Forget "emerge orinoco", those drivers support monitor mode, but not with firmware > 7.x
and why should I do a firmware downgrade, if I was able to use monitor mode for ~2 years? lol

redhook · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

Sodom · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject:

redhook · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

Jerri · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 353

Jerri · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 353

Never mind, answered my own question. Here is a link to the solution (I hope, haven't tested it yet - i need a windows machine to downgrade my firmware)

http://www.nervous.it/hw/dlink_dwl660_orinoco.html#flash

Sodom · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

I also have a dlink dwl 660 - and in case of problems I will have a look at my original driver cd delivered with the card, because it should contain the firmware.
Just write me a short message, if needed.
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Jerri · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 353

Well, it was a bit of a hassel, setting up windows xp on my laptop (without a cd drive) for the sole purpose of downgrading the firmware, however it worked. I was able to downgrade to version 8.10. and it appears that things are a little more stable. Kismet only crapped out after rougly 20 hours, which is a step up from 20 minutes with v8.72. I think i'll try downgrading again to v.7.5. the only catch is, you have to do it on windows 98 or 2000. It doesn't work on XP. hurray for more hoop jumping.

Anyone you is looking for upgrade or downgrade their firmware version on orinoco cards, i highy recommend visiting that web page posted above.