I've recently purchased an AMD64 powered laptop which contains an Agere mini
PCI 0508 wlan system built in.
All my research indicates that this is a Hermes device of some kind, but the
Orinoco driver doesn't seem to support it - at least, I can get the driver to
load, but not to recognise the card!
Details as follows:
OS: Suse Linux-9.1 Pro x86_64 (kernel-2.6.5-7.95-default and 2.6.8-rc1)
Device: Agere mini PCI 0508 (according to windoze!)
The agere website implies that this is an orinoco device. The agere drivers
won't compile - they're meant for kernel-2.4 not 2.6, and may not be x86_64
compatible.
PCI IDs: 11C1:AB34:144F:7007
** lspci -v **
<snip>
0000:00:0a.0 Network controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device ab34
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp.: Unknown device 7007
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19
I/O ports at e080
<snip>
** lspci -n **
<snip>
0000:00:0a.0 Class 0280: 11c1:ab34
<snip>
** dmesg **
<snip>
orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@xxxxx> and others)
orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@xxxxx> & Jean
Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxx>)
<snip>
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19-2.5 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xe400, 00:40:d0:58:e7:88, IRQ 23.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 41e1.
<snip>
** boot.msg **
<snip>
<notice>start services (network)
Setting up network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
doneWaiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:40:d0:58:e7:88 wlan0
20 19 17 14 12
eth0 device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:40:d0:58:e7:88
eth0 IP address: 192.168.0.6/24
doneWaiting for mandatory devices: wlan0
10 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
wlan0 interface could not be set up
failedSetting up service
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .failed
<notice>exit status of (network) is (7)
<snip>
The device appears to use a Hermes chipset, and modprobe orinoco_pci loads the
hermes module as well as orinoco_pci and orinoco. It appears to be connected
directly to the pci bus, ie not using a bridge of any kind.
I can't find any error messages anywhere (anywhere I've missed? I"m normally a
Slackware user, and still finding my way around SuSE...!), but it appears
that when the system fails to find wlan0, it unloads the modules.
I've included the eth0 messages as a contrast to the wlan0 messages. eth0
finds the mac address of the device, wlan0 does not, indicating the device
hasn't been found.
With the SuSE standard kernel, I used the supplied orinoco modules, using
yast. With my home-compiled 2.6.8-rc1 kernel, I used the orinoco-0.15-rc1
drivers from sourceforge.
Am I doing something dumb (probably!) or is this device not supported by the
orinoco drivers?
TIA!
--
Pete
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