Re: Agere Mini-PCI wireless card

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:06:53 -0400

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:02:21 +0000, Peter Christy wrote:

> I've been trying to get this card to work as well, under either SuSE or
> Slackware - no success yet.
>
> All the indications are that it is a Hermes (Orinoco) device, but the PCI IDs
> don't seem to match those supplied in the Orinoco driver. I tried changing the
> PCI IDs in the driver and recompiling, but then it seg-faults on loading!
>
> I've left messages on the Orinoco development board, but not had any responses.
>
> I managed to get it working after a fashion by going back to kernel-2.4 and
> using the proprietary drivers. It worked, but no dhcp, and it filled the logs
> up with useless messages!
>
> All the info I've gleaned has come from:
>
> www.modem-help.com/mfcs.php?mid=119&nid=13369
>
> plus the Orinoco mailing lists on Sourceforge, but for the moment, I've gone
> back to my pcmcia DLink 650+.
>
> If you find anything I've missed, please let me know!

Have you tried Ndiswrapper and the XP driver?

Relevant Pages

  • Whats in netdev-2.6.git
    ... fix mispatch for media type detect. ... ixgb: ... e1000: remove changelog in driver ... orinoco: possible null pointer dereference in orinoco_rx_monitor ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • [8/8] orinoco: PCI/PLX/TMD driver updates
    ... Update the initialization code in the various PCI incarnations of the ... driver and adds a couple of extra supported cards to the ID tables. ... +/* Orinoco PCI specific data */ ... * Do a soft reset of the PCI card using the Configuration Option Register ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • [6/14] Orinoco driver updates - cleanup PCI initialization
    ... Update the initialization code in the various PCI incarnations of the ... driver and adds a couple of extra supported cards to the ID tables. ... +/* Orinoco PCI specific data */ ... * Do a soft reset of the PCI card using the Configuration Option Register ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
    ... but it looks like your wlan adapter is some kind of orinoco card. ... > # Loadable module support ... > # Subsystem Options ... the floppy tape device driver ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Agere Mini-PCI wireless card
    ... All the indications are that it is a Hermes (Orinoco) device, but the PCI IDs ... PCI IDs in the driver and recompiling, but then it seg-faults on loading! ... up with useless messages! ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)