SpareTimeGizmos
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Posted: Aug. 31 2006,20:07 |
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I'm brand new to DSL - I had no trouble at all getting it to boot, but I cannot get the WiFi started. I've got a genuine Orinoco Gold PCMCIA WiFi Card (one of the ones that's supposed to "just work out of the box" :-) When I boot it says -
cardmgr[75]: executing: 'modprobe HERMES'
cardmgr[75]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
cardmgr[75]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
cardmgr[75]: executing: './network start eth0'
....
cardmgr[75]: + ifup: Ignoring unknown interface eth0
The dmesg log has this to say -
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
eth0: MAC address ....
eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0180-0x01bf
There are no errors (indeed, no other messages at all) that refer to eth0. How come ifup doesn't find it? Is this expected, or bad ? Is that a dumb question ?
Is it a problem that my Orinoco firmware is not the latest? Anybody know where to download the latest firmware? All the original Orinoco stuff (e.g. www.orinocowireless.com) seems to have disappeared from the web.
If I go on to Iwconfig, after entering the channel, SSID and WEP key, it just says "Connection failed". And Wlanconfig just says "No network card found".
Question - is Iwconfig the correct next step? Is there something else I'm supposed to be doing?
Thanks!
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