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On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 05:50 -0700, aaaaa bbbbb wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I have Proxim orinoco gold, model 8420-WD.
>
> I downloaded drivers and firmware from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/. Drivers installed without
> errors, when i insert my pcmcia card i got beeps but i cant see it on
> iwconfig.
>
> Here is what dmesg show when pcmcia cards tried to run.
>
> orinoco 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson
> <hermes-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pavel
> Roskin <proski-mXXj517/zsQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, et al)
> orinoco_cs 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson
> <hermes-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Pavel Roskin <proski-mXXj517/zsQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, et al)
You could try 0.15rc4. It would report the firmware version.
> eth2: firmware ALLOC bug detected (old Symbol firmware?). Trying to
> work around... failed!
> eth2: failed to initialize firmware (err = -5)
> orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed
I think you have really old firmware. Try upgrading at least to 6.06.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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