genkernel hotplug and orinoco gold wlan pcmcia card

poi4QWE · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Hamburg

hi,
i got the orinoco gold wlan pcmcia card. I have a running gentoo installtion on my laptop with genkernel and hotplug. if i put the card into the pcmcia slot nothing happens.

I tried:
modprobe pcmcica_core
modprobe orinoco
modprobe hermes

but after none of that commands the card did work.
If i do "cardctl ident" i get the following error message: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices.
I started at boot /etc/init.d/hotplug.
Can anybody help me?
Thanx
Jan

qwkbrnfox · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:16 pm Post subject:

You need the specific driver for your pcmcia hardware (the laptop hardware, not the card). I use i82365 (for hp pavilion). I think yenta_socket is another commonly use driver.

WarpFlyght · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Atlanta, GA

This won't solve your problem, but for reference: if you have the same ORiNOCO Gold card that I have (802.11a/b/g), the chipset might be an Atheros chipset. There is a driver under development that currently works, and it is in portage. It is called "madwifi" and it is masked.

I was given the same error you were until I loaded the yenta_socket module into the kernel. After that, I loaded the ath_pci module (the Atheros chipset module) and it now works.
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