[ltp] wireless problem on X21

Martin West linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 31 Dec 2001 23:27:16 -0000


I have RH 7.1 and the orinoco card and am using the wavelan_cs, my problem
was solved by specifying mode=managed, essid=any
regards Martin West

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Feiereisen" <bill@Feiereisen.net>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Cc: <bill@Feiereisen.net>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: [ltp] wireless problem on X21


> I have an X21 with RH7.1 in a dual boot with Win2K. I am unable to get my
> 802.11 wireless to work under linux, but other PCMCIA services work (for
> instance an IBM microdrive).  The card is an Orinoco gold. The built-in
> ethernet NIC works fine as eth0. I'd like to configure the PC card as
eth1.
>
> lsmod shows:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by
> wavelan_cs             23008   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> cs4281                 47056   2 (autoclean)
> soundcore               4464   3 (autoclean) [cs4281]
> autofs                 11264   1 (autoclean)
> ds                      7280   4 [wavelan_cs]
> yenta_socket           11440   4
> pcmcia_core            43072   0 [wavelan_cs ds yenta_socket]
> eepro100               16624   1 (autoclean)
> ipchains               38976   0 (unused)
> ide-scsi                8352   0
> scsi_mod               95104   1 [ide-scsi]
> ide-cd                 26848   0
> cdrom                  27232   0 [ide-cd]
> usb-uhci               20720   0 (unused)
> usbcore                49664   1 [usb-uhci]
>
> but there are some messages at boot that I don't understand and are not
> captured in boot.log or from dmesg. the message is something like
"incorrect
> IRQ. Module might have incorrect parameters." I'ver never understood
IRQ's.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Could I just skip the whole problem by upgrading to RH7.2?
>
> Bill Feiereisen
> www.feiereisen.net
>
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