Orinoco problem, Have not seen any like this

[halfdead]

Posted on Knoppix-std forums also, Using newest versions of both Knoppix-STD and regular Knoppix

Computer is a Compaq presario r3000. I have a onboard ethernet and wireless card built in, the Realtek and the Broadcom listing I believe. The broadcom is a wireless G card so im not expecting that one to work, the ethernet port works fine on the wired router. I'm trying to get my Orinoco Gold (bought here ,top left http://stores.ebay.com/The-TechWirel...enameZl2QQtZkm ) card working in the PCMCIA slot.
No matter what distro I use (suse,knoppix,knoppix-std,mandrake) It doesn't want to work/light up at all, windows it works great.

I ran Sisoft to find PCMCIA controller, I think this is what this is.
Cardbus/PCMCIA Controller 1+2
Texas Instruments (T.I.) PCI1620 Pc card Cardbus Controller with Ultramedia

lspci returns

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d1 (rev a4)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d0 (rev a6)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d4 (rev a4)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d7 (rev a5)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d7 (rev a5)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d8 (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00da (rev a2)
00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d9 (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d5 (rev a5)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00dd (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d2 (rev a4)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4320 (rev 03)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 (rev 01)

dmesg returned

GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
megaraid: v1.18f (Release Date: Tue Dec 10 09:54:39 EST 2002)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
DC390: 0 adapters found
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2

ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v1.00
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 21054 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes.
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
apm: BIOS not found.
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta IRQ list 02f8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000011
Yenta IRQ list 02f8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000086
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x20f 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: excluding 0x60000000-0x60ffffff
cs: warning: no high memory space available!
cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: excluding 0xd0000-0xdffff
cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0cffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcffff
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.1 $ time 23:39:54 Sep 6 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe149f000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:00d7 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe14a1000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, PCI device 10de:00d7 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc00b) is not claimed by any active driver.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Mouse] on usb2:2.0
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[email protected]>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-0 with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x77 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe14c4000, 00:02:3f:20:88:eb, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 23:32:08 Sep 6 2003
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0x1c00 and 0x1400, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS116 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
NTFS driver 2.1.4a [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 41e1.
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 41e1.
apm: BIOS not found.

Ifconfig returns

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:3F:20:88:EB
inet addr:192.168.1.109 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1989 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1808 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2064657 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:313799 (306.4 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:200 (200.0 b) TX bytes:200 (200.0 b)

iwconfig returns

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.


I hope this helps, anything I can try work be a big help, thanks

[GuyLeDouche]

First, what version of knoppix are you running? Second, what is the specs of your card exactly (model number, wireless connectivity)? If you are booting from the 2.6.x kernel of Knoppix, not a good idea for Orinoco cards. I have never gotten mine to work in 2.6.x.