Orinoco wifi driver fails load on startup but can load it manually

From: Bill Cattell (wbcattell_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:53:34 GMT

I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 running Mandrake 10.1. I have a netprofile
setup for a Linksys wireless NIC that uses the Orinoco drivers. The NIC
was detected on setup so it's not an issue of the OS not seeing the
hardware.

On startup I select the wireless netprofile which loads the orinoco,
orinoco_cs and ds modules when pcmcia runs. What doesn't get loaded is a
module called yenta_socket.

If I rmmod the orinoco modules then /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart all modules
get loaded correctly including the yenta_socket. I can then run the
/etc/init.d/network script and get an IP via DHCP.

What I can't figure out is why yenta_socket isn't getting loaded on
startup (cold or warm boot).

Here's a list of the modules loaded when everything is working;

[root@i7500l ]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
orinoco_cs 6760 1
orinoco 38028 1 orinoco_cs
ds 17572 5 orinoco_cs
yenta_socket 18624 1
nfsd 189408 8
exportfs 4736 1 nfsd
lockd 58344 2 nfsd
sunrpc 127652 2 nfsd,lockd
md5 3584 1
ipv6 230916 10
maestro 34440 1
soundcore 7008 2 maestro
af_packet 16072 6
usbhid 41088 0
floppy 55088 0
pcmcia_core 59972 3 orinoco_cs,ds,yenta_socket
hermes 7712 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
ide-cd 37280 0
cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd
loop 12520 0
nls_iso8859-1 3680 1
ntfs 147964 1
supermount 34804 1
intel-agp 19584 1
agpgart 27752 1 intel-agp
evdev 7648 0
uhci-hcd 28752 0
usbcore 103172 4 usbhid,uhci-hcd
genrtc 7444 0
ext3 120680 5
jbd 49080 1 ext3