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daemonflower
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 Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: Orinoco Gold: "Incompatible firmware, aborting" |
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On my long and arduous quest in search of the holy WLAN, I have encountered a new stumbling block. I have done a completely new install. I use pcmciautils instead of pcmcia-cs. Now dmesg hails me thus: | Code: | piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcffff 0xe4000-0xfffff
cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
hermes @ 00010100: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x8 id=0xfd0b offset=0x0
eth1: Cannot read hardware identity: error -5
eth1: Incompatible firmware, aborting
orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed
hermes @ 00010100: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x8 id=0xfd0b offset=0x0
eth1: Cannot read hardware identity: error -5
eth1: Incompatible firmware, aborting
orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed
hermes @ 00010100: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x8 id=0xfd0b offset=0x0
eth1: Cannot read hardware identity: error -5
eth1: Incompatible firmware, aborting
orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed |
What do I do wrong? Which driver to use for Orinoco Gold (I have every one that looked remotely feasible built into the kernel)? What else to do, where else to go?
Thanks
Helge |
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BradN
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Try to see if a knoppix cd can use the wireless card, possibly on another laptop too if you can find one to borrow. If everything gives the same error, there actually might be something screwy about the firmware on the card, and I don't even know how you'd go about reflashing it (I know there are tools though). |
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daemonflower
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I should have mentioned that I had the card working on this computer already (well almost - see this thread), so I don't think the firmware really is at fault... |
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daemonflower
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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BUMP!
If nobody here has any idea, maybe I should try it in the Kernel & Hardware forum...  |
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