On 15 Jan 2006, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > > > Grr... > > I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. > > I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, > > I'm no longer able to sort it out myself. > > > > >From the syslog, it appears that the encryption is no longer valid. This > > is confusing because I haven't changed anything (that I know of) for > > well over a year. I've checked the access point and it's working and > > such... > > > > help? > > > > Between > > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts > > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts > > /etc/network/ifconfig > > > > I'm not getting anything to work. the card doesn't appear to load at > > all or only partially. > > I have a very similar problem with an Orinoco PCMCIA card. There were > a number of suggestions here a couple of weeks ago, and on > debian-laptop just afterwards, but no solution yet. One thing I haven't > yet tried is getting the latest driver. > > Does your card connect if you temporarily turn off encryption at the > access point? Mine does (by manual 'ifup eth0'). If it does we may > have the same complaint... > > -- > richard
This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you have upgraded this recently you could try going back to the version in Stable. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
