Your card is listed under the section saying
# Cards with Symbol firmware without flash memory (Spectrum24 Trilogy).
# These cards need a separate driver that loads the firmware.
You might need to find the driver to do that. I'm not sure how,
because I have a full Orinoco Gold card.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:34:37 +0100, Wagner Frederic
<Frederic.Wagner-/zGXu1G9BXs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi people,
>
> i have some problems getting my socket wireless card to work.
>
> this is my card :
>
> trantor:/home/tracker# cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> product info: "Socket", "CF+ LP WLAN Card Rev A", "1.00"
> manfid: 0x0104, 0x0001
> function: 6 (network)
> Socket 1:
> no product info available
>
> i've already used succesfully the spectrum_cs module with other kernel
> versions for that card.
>
> i've tried drivers version 15rc2 and cvs head with the same results.
> the firmware is compiled in the driver as I else have problems
> similar to these ones :
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6054520&forum_id=11677
>
> when I insert my card all modules are automagically loaded and I got the
> following messages :
>
> cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
> cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
> orinoco 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson
> <hermes-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pavel Roskin
> <proski-mXXj517/zsQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, et al)
> spectrum_cs 0.15rc2STA (Pavel Roskin <proski-mXXj517/zsQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> David Gibson <hermes-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, et
> al)
> eth2: Hardware identity 8000:0001:0000:0000
> eth2: Station identity 0021:0002:0002:0001
> eth2: Firmware determined as Symbol F3.91-68
> eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> eth2: MAC address 00:A0:F8:A1:7E:8A
> eth2: Station name "Prism I"
> eth2: ready
> eth2: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 6, io 0x0180-0x01c7
> eth2: no IPv6 routers present
>
> also the LED is blinking nicely.
>
> I can see the signal :
>
> trantor:/home/tracker# cat /proc/net/wireless
> Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed |
> WE
> face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon |
> 17
> eth2: 0000 34. 141. 107. 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> however, it's not possible to do anything else.
> trying to establish a connection doesn't work.
>
> things like "trantor:/home/tracker# iwlist eth2 scan"
> take 30 seconds and end up with :
> "eth2 Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable"
>
> doing an strace on this command shows the program is looping on this
> command : ioctl(3, SIOCGIWSCAN, 0xbffffb80) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
>
> at this point it is getting too technical for me (I did a small google
> on SIOCGIWSCAN though) and I thought I'd rather ask for help on this
> mailing list.
>
> is there someone with a hint about the nature of this problem ?
>
> thanks
>
> Wagner Frederic
> --
> Why fear computers ? They don't byte !
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
> Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
> Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.
> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click
> _______________________________________________
> Orinoco-devel mailing list
> Orinoco-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/orinoco-devel
>
-------------------------------------------------------
SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click
|
