Networking :: orinoco mystery

I'm brand new to dsl. I have an old pentium 133 with
32 mb memory. DSL works great on it (I am amazed).
So now I want to try to get my orinoco silver wlan card
working..

When I insert the card into the pc slot DSL automagically
loads what seem to be the right modules (orinoco,
orinoco_cs, hermes). Iwconfig sets the essid and key
with no complaint. ifconfig brings up the card with
proper ip and netmask.

The little green light goes on, on the card.

But I can't ping the network. There is just no response.
Ping reports like: nn signals transmitted, none received.

But there is no flashing on the transmit/receive light during
the pinging.

Any advice would be appreciated.

You can try the command ' pump -i wlan0 ' from a root shell..

I don't have the orinoco card, but I have several others.
From what I can read in your posts, your inserting the card
after the OS is booted..

What happens when the card is already in the computer
BEFORE you boot it up ?

73
ke4nt

I have the Orinoco Gold card in my Pentium 133 laptop, and as long as I boot with it inserted DSL finds it and configures it fine. Try plugging it in before you boot.

thanks for the advice; no luck

the pump operation reports failure

if I boot with the card inserted dsl finds it
but cannot bring it up (there is a message
during boot: ignoring unknown interface eth0)

I was able to get the windows drivers set up (in
windows 95 that is which is what's on this old
machine) and the card works in windows (chalk one
up for ms there)

I tried booting knoppix in text mode and got the same
results as in dsl (no surprise I guess).

It feels like it's close to working but I don't know
what to try next ...

I get the same error, ignoring unknown interface eth0, but it still works for me. What laptop are you using? Mine is a Hitachi 4140x. Could be the differnce is in PCMCIA slots and drivers. Mine supports 16 and 32 bit cardbus cards. Do you get two beeps when it gets to the card manager stage, I do.

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