Help with FC6 and Orinoco Gold pcmcia card

[jim tate]

Christian Campbell wrote:
> Hello all.  After a frustrating weekend trying to get my Orinoco Gold 
> pcmcia wireless card to load, I give up, and turn to you.  I know 
> little about getting this card to work, but here is what I *do* know...
>  
> -ifconfig doesn't show a wlan0 interface
> -dmesg shows it sees a card inserted (PC Card bus but nothing more)
> -iwconfig doesn't have any interfaces showing wireless extensions
> -a search of the file system shows the existence of orinoco.ko 
> orinoco_cs.ko and hermes.ko
> -modprobe orinoco, modprobe orinoco_cs, and modprobe hermes doesn't 
> seem to make a difference.
> -I assume I shouldn't need to compile any drivers as they seem to 
> already be on the system (see above)
>  
> Any walk-thru or advice would be appreciated.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Christian
>  
>  
>  
> Christian Campbell
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>  
Do a /sbin/lsmod and see if you can see a 'orinoco_cs' driver.
Post /sbin/pccardctl ident 
If you don't have the 'pccardctl' command, install the pcmciautils package.
Do you have a 80211 a/b or g type card? The 'a/b' card is what I use, 
not sure how a 'g' card works
This is most unusal, because the Orinoco Gold card has worked 
automattically in Fedora, I have three of them and
they are auto detected, no problems.

Jim