Re: Orinoco_cs WiFi under kernel-2.6.30

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 02:16 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.

When it's not connecting to anything, can you open a terminal and do the
following?

sudo iwlist eth1 scan

and paste what it returns?  orinoco has always been somewhat iffy about
scan results, and it looks like your card simply isn't finding your AP.
Thus NM can't connect to the AP automatically.

Dan

> 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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