2.6.3 and Orinoco (zillionth post)

KePSuX

Ok, I have just spend two days fighting with the 2.6.3 kernel and my Orinoco Gold card. I have read every post on these here fourms and there is A LOT of conflicting information on how to get this working properly. Could someone that knows this issue inside and out PLEASE write an idiots guide to getting this up? I am starting the OS load over b/c during my war on the configuration I have managed to stop the system from loading all the way into the OS at all.

So far my kernel config is set as

jkalderash · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 111

Yes, you should almost certainly install pcmcia-cs. The kernel provides driver modules; pcmcia-cs basically sets up everything and gives you commands (cardctl) which let you manage the card. Make sure you compile your kernel properly including any necessary drivers as modules, then

KePSuX · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject:

DId my kernel config look proper?

jkalderash · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 111

The only odd thing I see is that you've got "PCMCIA/CardBus support" buit directly into the kernel, but your lsmod indicates it's built as a module - that option provides pcmcia_core and ds. If you build pcmcia_core, ds, and or yenta_socket as modules, make sure you modprobe them before you start pcmcia. Other than that everything looks fine.

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

Have you already tested, if it works?
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KePSuX · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

KePSuX · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 12:37 am Post subject:

Ok, heres a n00b question. How do I determine the name of modules avalible for modprobing on a system? I know what I compliled in, I just dont know their names. I know they are in some directory...just which one? Thanks!

jkalderash · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 111

/lib/modules/<kernel-version>

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

ok here is my suggest:
(if u use KDE than i suggest kwavecontrol as well)
after you have compiled and installed the whole kernel, xfree & KDE
you should also take this
(to get the latest version of the tools):

xdrainox · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 11

I am currently running 2.6.3-love6 with the lastest pcmcia-cs.. my orinoco classic gold card works perfect, but I can't get it into promiscuous mode. Any ideas? from what I'm told the love6 patches orinoco and hermes drivers so that they can go into monitor mode.

-Josh

echo6 · Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 587

pcmcia-cs is still needed for the cardmgr program. After you have all the modules loaded what happens if you manually execte cardmgr ? /etc/init.d/pcmcia does this for you but you do need to ensure that the modules are loaded before hand using /etc/modules.autoload or /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Yes you also need wireless tools as that will give you programs like iwconfig.

Also what is your hardware? There are known issues with some laptops with irq conflicts etc

Your kernel config looks fine.

KePSuX · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

OK on my new load, im getting this error on boot.

echo6 · Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 587

KePSuX · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject:

KePSuX · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:

Ok, now that that is solved I have another easier question. On this particular machine I have two ethernet cards. One is a wirelss card (obviously) and the other is a built in lan card on the laptop. There should never be a time when I will have both the wifi card in the machine along with a cat5 cable plugged into the lan cable. I want the machine to turn on whichever is availble to it on boot. And i need the wifi card to have a predetermined static ip but the hardwired lan port to run off DHCP.

The LAN port is eth0
The WiFI card is eth1

as of right now when the machine boots the lan port is comming up, but the wifi card will not work until i preform

echo6 · Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 587

Take a look at the config and scripts in /etc/pcmcia.

I've always configured my networking manually, I've never got around to doing it any other way.

Hansel · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

The main problem is you need ISA support in the kernel.

[*] PCI support
PCI access mode (Any) --->
[*] Legacy /proc/pci interface
[*] PCI device name database
[*] ISA support
[ ] MCA support
< > NatSemi SCx200 support
[*] Support for hot-pluggable devices

You don't need the "Hermes PCMCIA card support" module.
That gives you the orinoco module.
The pcmcia_cs package gives you the orinoco_cs module.

[code][*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions
< > Hermes PCMCIA card support

You must reinstall (rebuild) pcmcia_cs each time you install
a new kernel.

KePSuX · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

Well....I still don't have ISA support built in and it works. The original kernel config I have uptop is still what im rolling with problem free. I just need to get a script that fires up the correct network card at startup, and I've almost got that done.

echo6 · Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 587

Hansel · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

raylpc · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

How do I set the Wep key for orinoco? I used to use wlan-ng. The key is 104 bit. Thanks.

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

raylpc · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject:

Thanks, sethleon. I just got it working. The wireless-tools is cool. And I noticed from the posts that there's the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts which I can set my WEP ans essid. But how can I specify one for home and one for school? It seems that the pattern matching is on MAC address.
Now, I just save the two versions of iwconfig command in two different scripts.

Thanks

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

look at your /etc/pcmcia/network.opts:

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

thus a sample /etc/pcmcia/network.opts could be (with schemes):