noob + orinoco pcmcia

chimpsky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 109

Ok, I believe everything I need is in my kernel, I have read a lot of posts and am still confused about how to get this working. First thing I did was stick in the orinoco card and run:
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start
I was told that the LEDs would not flash untill my system gets an IP from that device (dhcpce eth1) I'm not really sure what that means but the lights did not come on. I then ran:
ifconfig -a
and found my pcmcia card was on eth1. Other info: im running the yenta_socket module.

So, it looks like everything is ok so far but I'm not really sure what the next step is to connect to my AP (or get the LEDs to turn on) any suggestions would be very helpfull!

chimpsky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 109

by the way im on the 2.4 kernel

varmaa · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1

Hello,

Have you tried 'ifconfig eth1 up', followed by 'dhcpcd eth1'? In my experience, 'ifconfig eth1 up' has caused the card to look for the first access point it can find and use it, and 'dhcpcd eth1' does all the DHCP stuff.

I also recommend 'emerge wireless-tools' if you haven't already; it comes with a tool called 'iwconfig' that lets you specify an ESSID for the network you want to connect to (if there's multiple wireless nets in the area), as well as WEP options, if you use that. It's also very useful for debugging.

Hope that helps!

-- Atul

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

why don't you search this forum, there are plenty of orinoco post,
also one I have posted in the needed configuration files and stuff:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=142059

just take a look this should help you :wink:

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