[vox-tech] Wireless cards and orinoco patching woes

[Peter Jay Salzman]

wish i could help you, but i really know nothing about pcmcia.  it's all
voodoo to me.

however, we've had two posts in the past year about the orinco drivers.
in both cases they started to work when the person monkeyed with a
setting having to do with a security protocol.

i can't remember even sketchy details, but nicole carlson was the person
who answered the first post for help (rhonda).  she (nicole) is in LA
right now, but hopefull when she gets back (monday?) she'll be able to
shed some possible light on the matter.

sorry you're having a rough time.   wish i could be of more help.  :(

pete


begin Jonathan McPherson <jamcp@ucdavis.edu> 
> All,
> 
> > 6. scanning works!
> 
> Alas, I spoke too soon. Immediately after bootup, scanning generates a
> "No scan results" message regardless of how close I am to a wireless hub.
> 
> About 30 seconds after the system has fully booted (why does it take so
> long?) I get a high beep that indiciates that the PCMCIA services have
> correctly configured the card. Scanning any time after the beep generates
> a message like the below:
> 
> Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> The README that came with the Orinoco driver suggests one of two typical
> causes for this error:
> 
> 1. The hermes.conf file needs to be copied from the orinoco driver
>    directory into /etc/pcmcia. (This I did, but after restarting PCMCIA
>    services -- and even a complete reboot -- it made no difference). All
>    the necessary devices are bound to orinoco_cs, as they ought to be.
>    /etc/pcmcia/config looks good as far as I can see, too. 
> 
> 2. The kernel needs to be built with ISA support. (It is.)
> 
> I am slightly unsettled by the fact that my Google (web and
> groups) skills have been insufficient to locate any descriptions
> of anyone receiving this error (alone) at scan time; most seem to
> get it long before.
> 
> Any ideas? d-: (I'm sure you are all _thoroughly_ entertained by my
> continual posts to the list about my efforts to get my card working...)
> 
> Jonathan.
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