At Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:02 -0500 Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin. >> >> I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the >> wireless "works fine", but is not right. >> >> When booting there is a very long delay at the net.eth1 and the system >> wants the agere_sta_fw.bin firmware. If you wait it out, it eventually >> proceeds and the wireless works. I assume I should be getting the >> firmware, but I don't know from where. I did emerge the orinoco-fwutils >> but that doesn't have firmware or say where to get it. > > You have to find and download the windows drivers for your device and > extract the firmware out of them, then rename it and put it in > /lib/firmware. See here: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco#device_firmware > > A google search turned up this firmware link: > http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-devel&m=121078835610877&q=p3 First and foremost, thanks. Ouch. I see from your web page that for wpa I do need the firmware. I may try to limp along without the firmware. As I mentioned the card does work but delay booting by minutes. Thanks again, allan
