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tunkaflux

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Registered: 2005-12-31

Posts: 13

Orinoco problem (Pcmcia problem?)

Hi all,

I installed Arch Linux 0.7.1 Noodle on a laptop with a Orinoco pcmcia card.  When I boot, I see the sit0, wifi0 and wlan0 interface, but I am unable to set a WEP key on the wlan0 interface.  The error message is "Invalid argument" when I issue the "iwconfig wlan0 key 1234567890" command.

I saw following thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … oco+hostap however could not get it to work...

Any ideas?

tunkaflux

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Registered: 2005-12-31

Posts: 13

Re: Orinoco problem (Pcmcia problem?)

Reinstalled Arch Linux 0.7.1, but now I do not even get the wlan0 and wifi0 interfaces, only a sit0 interface...

I have "MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"" in rc.conf and also "hwd !hotplug pcmcia" among others in the DAEMONS array...

Any ideas what might be going wrong?  This laptop is a Dell CPt333.

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Orinoco problem (Pcmcia problem?)

I have "MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"" in rc.conf and also "hwd !hotplug pcmcia" among others in the DAEMONS array...

Besides it has not much to do with your problem, MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" does already load your modules, so you should remove hwd from your DAEMONS array.
What modules does hwdetect load? ('hwdetect --show-modules')

tunkaflux

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Registered: 2005-12-31

Posts: 13

Re: Orinoco problem (Pcmcia problem?)

Hmmm, 'fixed' it by using my Cisco Aironet card.

With the orinoco, I get a sit0, wifi0 and wlan0 interface.  I cannot configure the wlan0 interface for WEP (I.e. I cannot configure a key on it).

With my Aironet, I immediately get an 'eth0' interface which works...  The orinoco works in another laptop without problems...