Proxim 8421-WD: Orinoco or Hermes II?? [SOLVED]

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sienarot · Post by **sienarot** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:19 pm

I just picked up a Proxim 8421-WD (Silver), but after a lot of searching, I seem to be getting some conflicting information. Does it use a Orinoco or Hermes II chipset? Has anyone been able to get this card to work on kernel 2.4.20? I can't get it working! Particularly at this point, when I try to

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/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start

I get a "Failed to bring eth1 up".

Anyone have any suggestions?

sienarot · Post by **sienarot** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:45 pm

bump!

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:54 pm

Orinoco - hermes - same thing really.
The question you should be asking is wether the chipset is a Hermes/Hermes II or something else.

Some quick Googling shows that Proxim cards may be using something other than a hermes.

Could you post up the output from dmesg relating to ethx and "cardctl info"

sienarot · Post by **sienarot** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:18 pm

Thanks for the reply, UberLord.

Initially, dmesg gives me nothing about eth1, only about eth0 (my ethernet adapter, which works fine).

"cardctrl info" gives me (with just my Proxim card inserted in the slot):

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PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1="Agere Systems"
PRODID_2="Wireless PC Card Model 0110"
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0156,0003
FUNCID=6

and just in case, here's what "cardctl ident" gives me:

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Socket 0:
  no product info available
Socket 1:
  product info: "Agere Systems", "Wireless PC Card Model 0110", "", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0003
  function: 6 (network)

Whenever I try to "/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart" I get:

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 * Bringing eth1 up...
 * Failed to bring eth1 up                                                                                            [ !! ]

And after I "dmesg" again after attempting to restart the service, I get:

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Hw. address read/write mismap 0
Hw. address read/write mismap 1
Hw. address read/write mismap 2
Hw. address read/write mismap 3
Hw. address read/write mismap 4
Hw. address read/write mismap 5

Any suggestions?

sienarot · Post by **sienarot** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:06 am

Again UberLord, I thank you for your attempt to help me, but I've figured out how to get the card working!

For those who ever get this card and end up having trouble, these are the pages I used that helped me get it going:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120142
http://www.greenblaze.com/proxim.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... post411644
http://questier.com/howto.html

And one very important word of advice... If you are using an encryption key, be sure to add "0x" in front of the key if it's hexadecimal! Hahaha!

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:32 pm

Now you have it working, why not try out these scripts?
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435

Easy wireless configuration