Re: Orinoco_cs WiFi under kernel-2.6.30

[Timothy Murphy <gayleard eircom net>]

Dan Williams wrote:

>> My classic Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card has not been working
>> under Fedora/KDE (with WEP) for some time.
>> Does anyone have this card working under Fedora?
>> It works perfectly under Windows XP.

I was looking at this again today.
My laptop with a classic Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card,
running Fedora-11, 
with NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.i586,
connects with WiFi under Windows XP,
and also under Fedora with the network service.
But it fails with the NetworkManager service.

With the network service on, I see in /var/log/messages:

[tim mary ~]$ sudo grep eth1 /var/log/messages*
=========================================
Oct  3 21:43:42 mary kernel: 
	ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Oct  3 21:43:42 mary kernel:
	ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
Oct  3 21:43:42 mary avahi-daemon[1640]: 
	Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 
	with address 192.168.2.19.
Oct  3 21:43:42 mary avahi-daemon[1640]:
	 New relevant interface eth1.IPv4 for mDNS.
Oct  3 21:43:42 mary avahi-daemon[1640]:
	Registering new address record for fe80::202:2dff:fe21:3c9 on eth1.*.
Oct  3 21:43:42 mary avahi-daemon[1640]:
	Registering new address record for 192.168.2.19 on eth1.IPv4.
Oct  3 21:43:45 mary ntpd[1859]: Listening on interface #3 eth1,
	fe80::202:2dff:fe21:3c9#123 Enabled
Oct  3 21:43:45 mary ntpd[1859]: Listening on interface #5 eth1,
	192.168.2.19#123 Enabled
Oct  3 21:44:29 mary nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: 
	parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ...
Oct  3 21:44:29 mary nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh:     
	read connection 'System dd-wrt (eth1)'
=========================================

After turning NetworkManager on, and network off, and re-booting:
=========================================
=========================================
Oct  3 23:21:24 mary kernel: pcmcia 0.0: pcmcia: 
	registering new device pcmcia0.0
Oct  3 23:21:24 mary kernel: orinoco_cs 0.0: 
	firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin
...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info> 
	 starting...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: 
	<WARN>  nm_generic_enable_loopback(): 
	error -17 returned from rtnl_addr_add():#012Sucess#012
...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): 
	driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): 
	new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'orinoco_cs')
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): 
	exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_02_2d_21_03_c9
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyS0): 
	ignoring due to lack of mobile broadband capabilties
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info>  
	Trying to start the supplicant...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info>  
	Trying to start the system settings daemon...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): 
	supplicant manager state:  down -> idle
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary nm-system-settings: 
	Loaded plugin ifcfg-rh: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  
	To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: 
	parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh:     
	read connection 'System dd-wrt (eth1)'
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: 
	parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: 
	parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ...
Oct  3 23:21:29 mary nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh:     
	read connection 'System eth0'
...
Oct  3 23:21:34 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): 
	device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Oct  3 23:21:34 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): 
	bringing up device.
Oct  3 23:21:34 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): 
	preparing device.
Oct  3 23:21:34 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): 
	deactivating device (reason: 2).
Oct  3 23:21:34 mary kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: 
	link is not ready
Oct  3 23:21:34 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): 
	device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0)
Oct  3 23:21:34 mary NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): 
	supplicant interface state:  starting -> ready
=========================================


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Timothy Murphy  
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