I have a ThinkPad T43 with an Orinoco Classic Silver PCMCIA card in it. This works fine under Windows. It used to work with the orinoco_cs driver under Fedora, but I don't think it has worked since Fedora-11.
Now (under Fedora-14) a kernel OOPS is caused when the card is inserted, or if the machine is booted with the card in.
I googled for orinoco_cs, but didn't find any recent posts on it. Is this device no longer supported in Linux? If so, it seems odd that the driver is still in the kernel.
I should explain that this machine is used by my wife, running Windows, so the failure in Linux is more an academic matter than a practical issue.
Assuming this card is no longer supported, can anyone recommend a PCMCIA or USB WiFi card for current Fedora?
It looks like a regression which happens sometimes for an older and rarely used hardware.The driver is no longer under active development (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco/), so you should contact the maintainer of the driver and hopefully they will have time and needed hardware to fix it.
Vaclav M.
On 11/27/2010 12:33 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a ThinkPad T43 with an Orinoco Classic Silver PCMCIA card in it. This works fine under Windows. It used to work with the orinoco_cs driver under Fedora, but I don't think it has worked since Fedora-11.
Now (under Fedora-14) a kernel OOPS is caused when the card is inserted, or if the machine is booted with the card in.
I googled for orinoco_cs, but didn't find any recent posts on it. Is this device no longer supported in Linux? If so, it seems odd that the driver is still in the kernel.
I should explain that this machine is used by my wife, running Windows, so the failure in Linux is more an academic matter than a practical issue.
Assuming this card is no longer supported, can anyone recommend a PCMCIA or USB WiFi card for current Fedora?
Vaclav Mocek wrote:
I forgot to mention, I have Edimax EW-7711UTn USB adapter (Amazon UK) and it works quite reliably with F14 and rpmfusion RaLink drivers.
Thanks. I'll note that. I'm actually using ndiswrapper now with a Vivanco USB WLAN dongle (ID 0457:0163 Silicon Integrated Systems), which seems to be working well under Fedora-14 and Windows XP. But I would prefer not to use ndiswrapper if possible.
Incidentally, ndiswrapper seems to have been removed from the rpmfusion repositories, for some reason. I had to compile it from the source obtained by "svn co https://ndiswrapper.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndiswrapper/trunk/ndiswrappe... ndiswrapper"
On 11/28/2010 01:25 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Thanks. I'll note that. I'm actually using ndiswrapper now with a Vivanco USB WLAN dongle (ID 0457:0163 Silicon Integrated Systems), which seems to be working well under Fedora-14 and Windows XP. But I would prefer not to use ndiswrapper if possible.
USB: 7392:7711 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7711UTn nLite Wireless Adapter [Ralink RT2870]
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:33:53PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a ThinkPad T43 with an Orinoco Classic Silver PCMCIA card in it. This works fine under Windows. It used to work with the orinoco_cs driver under Fedora, but I don't think it has worked since Fedora-11.
Now (under Fedora-14) a kernel OOPS is caused when the card is inserted, or if the machine is booted with the card in.
Does it look like this one?
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23932
I googled for orinoco_cs, but didn't find any recent posts on it. Is this device no longer supported in Linux? If so, it seems odd that the driver is still in the kernel.
Bugs happen -- it is hard to say what might have changed to trigger what you are seeing. If the driver stays broken it might get dropped, but for now let's just submit bug reports and hope someone finds the time and desire to fix it. :-)
John
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