Good day all.
For quite some time now, I've had problems getting PCMCIA wireless cards
working on my Gentoo system. It works for a while, then crashes Linux, no weird
logs or anything. Attached is the detailed statement of the problem.
I've used two different cards, a Microsoft MN520 and a Linksys WPC11, so it's
not likely to be a problem with the card. I use the Orinoco-CS driver for both
though, so that might be what's causing the problem, except the Orinoco devel
people claim it can't possibly crash Linux, so I'm also suspecting the PC
slot/bridge driver (Yenta, is it?). I hear that it's also possible that IRQ
conflicts are causing the problem.
I'm worried it might a problem particular to this laptop's PC slot. It's a
Compaq Armada m300. Has anyone else gotten a similar setup working with
wireless? I'd really appreciate any leads. This problem is getting
excruciatingly frustrating.
Thanks.
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Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas
Ateneo Campus Network Group (AteneoCNG)
4 BSCS, Ateneo de Manila University
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I have a Compaq Armada m300 running Gentoo. I use a PCMCIA Microsoft (yeah)
MN-520 WiFi card, and use the orinoco driver. It finds the network and connects
for a while, but my system keeps on hanging after a while of use, usually on
heavy network transfer or querying the NIC (iwconfig), and all I can do is
hard-restart. I get the same prob when using another card, a Linksys, also
using the orinoco driver, so it's not the card. I get the same problem using
the 2.4.26 and 2.6.9 kernels.
I'm using pcmcia-cs-3.2.5-r1 and orinoco-0.15-rc2.
According to the Linux PCMCIA HOWTO
(http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3), section
3.3 - PCMCIA Network Adapters, under the subsection "Diagnosing problems with
network adapters", the 4th bullet point: "If your card seems to be configured
properly, but sometimes locks up, particularly under high load, you may need to
try changing your socket driver timing parameters." It then refers to the
Startup options doc
(http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-1.html#startup).
That makes sense, and I'm thinking this means I have to do additional config on
the timing, and I'd like to know how to do this, and what values to set exactly.
Any ideas? I'm really eager to get this working. It's horribly annoying to have
to use a LAN cable on an otherwise perfect portable notebook. :-(
Thanks in advance.
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Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas
Ateneo Campus Network Group (AteneoCNG)
4 BSCS, Ateneo de Manila University
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