Proxim 8421-WD: Orinoco or Hermes II?? [SOLVED]

sienarot · Last edited by sienarot on Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:06 am; edited 1 time in total

I just picked up a Proxim 8421-WD (Silver), but after a lot of searching, I seem to be getting some conflicting information. Does it use a Orinoco or Hermes II chipset? Has anyone been able to get this card to work on kernel 2.4.20? I can't get it working! Particularly at this point, when I try to

sienarot · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject:

bump!

UberLord · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject:

Orinoco - hermes - same thing really.
The question you should be asking is wether the chipset is a Hermes/Hermes II or something else.

Some quick Googling shows that Proxim cards may be using something other than a hermes.

Could you post up the output from dmesg relating to ethx and "cardctl info"

sienarot · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply, UberLord.

Initially, dmesg gives me nothing about eth1, only about eth0 (my ethernet adapter, which works fine).

"cardctrl info" gives me (with just my Proxim card inserted in the slot):

sienarot · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:06 am Post subject:

Again UberLord, I thank you for your attempt to help me, but I've figured out how to get the card working!

For those who ever get this card and end up having trouble, these are the pages I used that helped me get it going:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120142
http://www.greenblaze.com/proxim.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=411644#post411644
http://questier.com/howto.html

And one very important word of advice... If you are using an encryption key, be sure to add "0x" in front of the key if it's hexadecimal! Hahaha!

UberLord · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:32 pm Post subject:

Now you have it working, why not try out these scripts?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435

Easy wireless configuration