ORiNOCO Wireless - troubles

[Hauan, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto:algould at datawok.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:54 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: Maksym Marchenko
> Subject: Re: ORiNOCO Wireless - troubles
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:27 am, Maksym Marchenko wrote:
> > Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 08:39 am, Maksym Marchenko wrote:
> > >>Hi!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>I have a Siemens 510 laptop with 128 MB RAM and 4GB HDD.
> > >>It has no Network card onboard. So I have only wireless pccard
> > >>ORiNOCO Silver.
> > >>I had before Intel Wireless/PRO 2011B. This one was bad (for
> > >> FreeBSD) Now I have ORiNOCO, but I can't make it working.
> > >>It works in Linux, but I want FreeBSD.
> > >>I have compile new kernel, but it says:
> > >>CIS is too long - truncating!
> > >>pccard0: Card has no functions!
> > >>cbb0: PC Card card activation failed
> > >>
> > >>Can anybody say, what must I doing?
> > >>
> > >>Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Look for information regarding your laptop brand/model, or similar
> > > models, at:
> > >
> > > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
> > >
> > > What version of FreeBSD are you running?  I'm not 
> familiar with the
> > > laptop; but FreeBSD 5.* has problems with many of the older pcmcia
> > > slots.  If you're running FreeBSD 5.*, consider:
> > >
> > > 1. recompiling the kernel using the OLDCARD kernel configuration
> > > file. 2. If ACPI is enabled, try booting with it 
> disabled. (If it's
> > > disabled, try booting with it enabled.)
> > > 3. You might also consider changing to FreeBSD 4.10, the 
> production
> > > version of FreeBSD.
> >
> > I was already at http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
> >
> > I'm running 5.2 , I had 4.9, bat it was the same trouble.
> > May be 4.10 is better that way ...
> >
> > I've not found a reference about including OLDCARD during kernel
> > compiling. How can I do that?
> 
> If I'm reading OLDCARD correctly, it references GENERIC; so if you're 
> still using a GENERIC kernel, you can:
> 
> 	#unless you're the only user on a standalone pc, boot 
> into single user
> 	#login as root
> 	cd /usr/src
> 	make clean
> 	make buildkernel KERNCONF=OLDCARD
> 	make installkernel KERNCONF=OLDCARD
> 	shutdown -r now
> 
>

I am running an orinoco silver on a hp omnibook 800ct
Durning install, when pccard is enabled choose the 
default address range, then select irq 3 and the card
should be recognized.  Mind you this is on 4.9-Release.

Works very nicely for me.

btw I had to give ssid to ifconfig extras.

dave