Bugzilla – Bug 114514
Orinoco wireless card is broken in beta 4
Last modified: 2007-06-05 10:04:52 UTC
I have an orinoco card that was working in beta1, broke in beta2, working in beta3 and is broke in beta 4. It detect the card and I can configure it through yast, but it fails to start.
Here is the wireless card information that I took when 9.3 was on the machine. 39: PCMCIA 02.0: 0282 WLAN controller [Created at pcmcia.123] Unique ID: CmP0.jpmKAVAATH5 Parent ID: QOEa.J5lSzbB0WR8 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:03.0/2.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card" Hotplug: PCMCIA Socket: 2 Vendor: pcmcia 0x0156 "Dell" Device: pcmcia 0x0002 "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card" Driver: "orinoco_cs" Device File: eth1 Features: WLAN HW Address: 00:02:2d:58:05:d2 WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 WLAN bitrates: 1 2 5.5 11 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey Driver Info #0: Driver Status: hostap_cs is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe hostap_cs" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: orinoco_cs is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe orinoco_cs" Extra Info: Dell, TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card, Version 01.01 Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #22 (CardBus bridge)
Please add 'ifup eth1' output, /var/log/messages, and 'hwinfo --netcard' output of Beta4.
> Please add 'ifup eth1' output Well, that is the part that is interesting. It has always been picked up as eth1 before. The information from comment #1 was when I was using 9.3. Not I have seen it picked up as wifi0 and/or wlan0. Sometimes both at the same time for the same card. Regardless I will send you that information, but I just wanted to let you know what I was seeing. Isn't there also a debug setting that I can put in? > /var/log/messages, and 'hwinfo --netcard' output of Beta4. I will have it for you shortly
Created attachment 48458 [details] hwinfo --netcard
Created attachment 48459 [details] ifup on wireless interface When I configure my wireless with yast2, it shows up under ifconfig as wlan0 and wifi0 for the same card. So the log that I sent is trying ifup on both
Created attachment 48460 [details] syslog
Let me know if you need any more information
It seems the card does not work properly with hostap_cs. Could you try whether the following helps: pccardctl eject switch_prism_driver orinoco rmmod hostap_cs pccardctl insert
Joachim Should the card be configured before or after I run these commands?
Yes that procedure fixed it.
hostap_cs claims to handle devices with manifid 0x0156, 0x0002. But there are also Orinco devices that use this id, not only Prism2 ones. I'll change the default for those devices to orinoco_cs. That means for Prism2 device with that id orinoco_cs gets loaded by default, but as this driver at least works with Prism2 devices, it's the much saner default.
Fix checked in for RC1.