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Re: Proxim orinoco gold model 8420-WD: msg#00019

Subject: Re: Proxim orinoco gold model 8420-WD
Sorry for asking this but i can't find where to download firware for linux, 
maybe somebody can give me a link 

Thanks.

>Hello!
>
>Please write in plain text without HTML.  Plain text is better >archived
>and it's easier to quote.
>>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.
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>Pavel Roskin




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