Hi Laurie,
Here are the results of ifconfig and iwconfig for my orinoco card (eth1) in
the 2.6.5 kernel. I'm kind of new to debian, so I may be missing something
obvious. The iwconfig command returns ""no wireless extensions"" (see
below).
ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:00:3D:11:D8
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1800
iwconfig eth1
eth1 no wireless extensions.
When I boot using the bf24 kernel my wireless card works perfectly and I get
these results for the same two commands:
ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:60:F9:E1
inet addr:10.0.1.3 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1895 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:885743 (864.9 KiB) TX bytes:314130 (306.7 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x140
iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"1ecb13" Nickname:"Folger"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:02:2D:1E:CB:13
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:2347 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:18/92 Signal level:-68 dBm Noise level:-86 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Tim
On Monday 17 May 2004 10:28 pm, you wrote:
> Tim Folger wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm running sarge on a fujitsu laptop, and use an orinoco gold card to
> > connect to the Internet and my home network. I recently installed
> >kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686, but when I boot using that kernel my wireless
> > card doesn't start, even though I've run modconf and installed (I think)
> > the required drivers. When I boot using the bf24 kernel (I'm using grub,
> > and have a choice) the card works fine.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> >Tim
>
> Hi Tim
>
> I have an IBM r31 with a wireless mini-pci card running the orinico
> driver. Sarge & kernel 2.6.3 runs fine. But I have both eth0 [ a wired
> lan] and eth1 [the orinico card. If the wired card is plugged in I
> cannot communicate unless I do a "if ifconfig eth1 down".
>
> Does ifconfig recognize your card? is an address assigned?
--
Tim
