Orinoco gold + gentoo.. where is my interface?

wonka · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Canada

I installed gentoo awhile ago and I have a orinoco gold card.. i've installed the orinoco drivers, everything *should* be fine, pcmcia and etc but I can't get ifconfig/iwconfig to see the interface. cardctl/cardmgr sees it fine.. but I have forgotten or am lost on how to make ifconfig/iwconfig (if iwconfig can see it ifconfig should be no problem) see it.

Any help would be appreicated.

Thanks.

wonka

plumboy · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 12

/etc/init.d/net.ethX start

X = 0,1,2.... depends on which interface is your wireless

if file not found, just copy the other number into that

or you can try ifconfig ethX up

feivelda · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:57 am Post subject:

If you have a network card, your orinoco should be eth1

the_mgt · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:16 am Post subject:

I think i habe the same card.
You have to start /etc/init.d/pcmcia and "modprobe" hermes, orinoco_cs and orinoco.
If it is a pcmcia card, it should be inserted automatically. You can do it manually with "cardctl insert 0 (or 1)". You can check its presence with "cardctl info 0 (or 1)".
My card is
PRODID_1="Lucent Technologies"
PRODID_2="WaveLAN/IEEE"
PRODID_3="Version 01.01"

With "dmesg" you can see which interface it is assigned to.

If dmesg puts out a aline like

wonka · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Canada

ifconfig (eth1 also doesnt work) doesn't show my device, but cardctl as I said before does. theres on net.lo and net.eth0 (which is my onboard ethernet card).. orinoco and hermes are inserted, but it says orinoco_cs isn't found, even on shutdown.

I would really like to know whats going on =[.

Thanks.

wonka

the_mgt · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:30 am Post subject:

To get a net.eth1, do this:

wonka · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Canada

ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth1

That makes a symlink from my localhost *device* to eth1, and will not help me at all with getting my device to work I'm pretty sure.

I thought you weren't supposed to have orinoco compiled in the kernel for it to work, atleast from what I read on this board, but I'll give it a try.

wonka

the_mgt · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

This is exactly what i have configured here on my laptop and it totally works.
If you don't have any /etc/init.d/net.eth1 you have to create one, and this is in fact done by symlinking it to net.lo. Thats what i read in the howto and it worked on different system very smooth.

wonka · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Canada

hoosier ~ # ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth1
hoosier ~ # ifconfig eth1 up
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
hooiser ~ #

hooiser ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Starting eth1
* Bringing up eth1
* Configuration not set for eth1 - assuming dhcp
* dhcp
* eth1 does not exist [ !! ]
hooiser ~ #

...

wonka

the_mgt · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:49 am Post subject:

It seems you don't have the right module loaded. You said you don't have the orinoco_cs module, did you try to build the stuff from the kernel i described earlier? What does "dmesg|grep eth1" put out?

When i start /etc/init.d/pcmcia, i see the following when i run dmesg:

the_mgt · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:09 am Post subject:

Ok, you don't need to "emerge orinoco", it didn't work here. Seems to be a relict of an ancient installation....
All you need is