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Pavel Roskin | 3 Jan 2007 06:41
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Re: Latest firmware version for Orinoco Gold/Silver PCMCIA cards?

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 15:06 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What is the latest firmware version for these cards,
> and where can it be downloaded?
> 
> I'm presently using NetworkManager with the orinoco_cs driver,
> and I seem to get better results with a card running version 8.72 .
> (It seems to be better at scanning.)
> However, I don't know where I got this driver,
> and I'd like to update a couple of other cards I have.
> 
> Is this the latest firmware version?

I believe 8.72 is the latest firmware that can be flashed permanently.
Newer firmware is loaded into the card memory and gets lost on power
cycle.  Note that orinoco_cs doesn't support firmware loading yet.

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Pavel Roskin | 3 Jan 2007 06:58
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Re: Scanning with Orinoco PCMCIA card

Hello!

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 20:03 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm presently using NetworkManager (NM) with mixed success.
> Basically, problems seem to occur because my Orinoco Gold card
> often fails to find my access point with "sudo iwlist eth0 scan",
> and when this happens NM seems to fail too.

The driver relies on the firmware for scanning.  But with any hardware
and firmware, there is no guarantee that all access points withing the
range will be found in the given scan.  The wireless medium is
inherently unreliable.

> I'm running Lucent firmware version 8.10.
> 
> I'm wondering if updating the firmware would be likely to help,
> or if NetworkManager does not really work with Orinoco PCMCIA cards?
> 
> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.

You didn't describe how NetworkManager fails.  Perhaps you should send a
bug report to NetworkManager developers with a detailed description of
the failure.  Also describe what you were doing and your goal.  Please
don't forget versions of all relevant software (kernel, driver, wireless
tools, NetworkManager).

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Pavel Roskin | 3 Jan 2007 07:08
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Re: FC6 + orinoco_usb

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 15:22 +0000, David W. Legg wrote:
> Thanks, Paul.
> I've just noticed that I was using the orinoco_usb sources from cvs 
> which are terribly out of date.  Maybe somebody should delete them?

Done.  Sorry for inconvenience.

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Keperling (mpk155-8DAjSxpRXgY@public.gmane.org | 11 Jan 2007 17:27
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What REALLY does it take to get Orinoco card working (Monitor mode)

Someone told me that the 2.4.34 kernel has the newest version of orinoco 
(0.15) drivers built in, and those already contain monitoring support.  

I read lots of posts on lots of forums about this.  When I do 'iwconfig eth0 
mode monitor' or 'airodump-ng eth0' i get errors about trying to put it into 
monitor mode.  I really would like to know what is going on.

I downgraded my card's firmware to 6.06 which has been tested as reliable.

Thanks for the help guys.

Matt

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Pavel Roskin | 27 Jan 2007 05:47
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Re: What REALLY does it take to get Orinoco card working (Monitor mode)

Hello!

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:27 -0500, Keperling (mpk155@...) wrote:
> Someone told me that the 2.4.34 kernel has the newest version of orinoco 
> (0.15) drivers built in, and those already contain monitoring support.  

That's not what I'm seeing.  drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c says it's
0.13d.  And that's what it would show in the kernel log.

> I read lots of posts on lots of forums about this.  When I do 'iwconfig eth0 
> mode monitor' or 'airodump-ng eth0' i get errors about trying to put it into 
> monitor mode.  I really would like to know what is going on.

Yet you don't quote even a single line from the messages.  This document
may help: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#symptoms

> I downgraded my card's firmware to 6.06 which has been tested as reliable.
>
> Thanks for the help guys.

You are welcome.

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Thorsten Hirsch | 28 Jan 2007 13:53
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acpi problems

Hi,

my orinoco gold card has problems connecting to my ap when acpi is 
turned on. In fact, it connects in about 10% directly at boot time. The 
link quality is between 25 and 30 (of 92) here. After boot time I've got 
no chance at all to get the link up. The percentage is much higher when 
the link signal is better, but even when my laptop is placed directly 
next to the ap, the link gets up in not more than 50% of my reboots and 
still at 0% after boot time. With "after boot time" I mean to exec 
'/etc/rc.d/network restart'.

I also tried "acpi=noirq" and "acpi=s3_bios", but the result is the same 
as if acpi is turned on. The situation changes completely when 
"acpi=off": everything works fine here, the link gets always up, 100% 
boot time, 100% after boot time.

My distribution is archlinux with the latest stable kernel package 
(2.6.19.2). Here's the output of dmesg when acpi is turned off:

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pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
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Jice | 28 Jan 2007 16:52
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Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP

Hi orinoco-users ;)

I'm currently experiencing problems with orinoco 0.15 (see log below).
[root <at> jice log]# uname -a
Linux jice.is-a-geek.org 2.6.17-5mdv #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:32:31 EDT 2006 i686 
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GNU/Linux
The distro is an up to date Mandriva 2007.0.

If I boot my computer and I forget to turn on my wifi router before, the 
computer becomes incredibly slow after a few minutes (up to the point that 
I'm compelled to reboot it the hard way).

So I let it a looong time in this state (may be 15 minutes) and rebooted to 
check my /var/log/messages file. (see below)
Among a lot of error messages from orinoco, I get this "Error -110 writing Tx 
descriptor to BAP" that I found in the FAQ here: 
http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/documentation/index.html#q6 where the devs ask 
for "reports of this behaviour on current versions", so here it is...
This message seems to happen a veryu large amount of times, since I can read 
the message "printk: 1221 messages suppressed" (or so) after each of them...

Can you please help me? I volunteer for any tests in order to find the 
problem.

Bye

J.C. Cardot

-> the card is a NETGEAR MA311:
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