On Sunday (04/21/2002 at 01:35PM -0500), Clay Fandre wrote:
> After doing a little more debugging, it looks like it's erroring out
> at the iwconfig line:
>
> +++ /sbin/iwconifg eth0 essid matrix
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
> SET failed on device eth0; Invalid argument.
>
> Here is a little if the dmesg output:
> eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:001c
> eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 7.28
> eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> eth0: WEP supported, 104 bit key
^^^^^^^^^^^
This looks really suspecious to me. It's the same sort of thing I saw
with a D-Link Prism2 card when the card services were incorrectly
giving the card 3.3V when it should have 5v.
I fixed it by adding this double-secret "ignore_cis_vcc" option to the
"orinoco_cs" entry in /etc/pcmcia/config:
device "orinoco_cs"
class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs" opts "ignore_cis_vcc=1"
I was indeed using the orinoco_cs driver with the Prism2 card.
This was on a Toshiba 2180 laptop. I never did have this specific
problem with any Orinoco card though-- so YMMV.
My Orinoco Gold signs on like this:
hermes.c: 3 Oct 2001 David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.08 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.08 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:xxxx:xxxx
eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported.
eth0: WEP supported, "128"-bit key.
eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:xx:xx:xx
eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f
(the 'xx' are my edits so as to not fuel my paranoia)
and that's with pcmcia-cs-3.1.31 and the orinoco driver supplied with it.
Chris
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