Re: Wireless Orinoco

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Wireless Orinoco
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 20:36, Jerry Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2004 09:06 pm, slide wrote:
> > Every once in a while I my wireless on my laptop goes haywire. I start
> > getting messages in dmesg saying something about how it can't write a TX
> > description to the BAP (I don't have the exact error message). What I have
> > to end up doing is shutdown the computer and let it sit for a few minutes,
> > then I can boot it up and start wireless again. Basically I am forcing the
> > wireless card to do a hard reset. Anyone know how to do this without
> > shutting down? I am using the orinoco_pci driver with a Prism 2.5
> > compatible wireless card in an IBM T30 laptop.
>
> I've got a PCMCIA card (Linksys v3)
> and use orinoco_cs 0.15 driver with 2.6 kernel and all works good.
> I would think that orinoco_pci would be the same but maybe not.

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I have that problem when the system seems to go to sleep. This is on
FC-2 (orinoco_pci) which is a 2.6 kernel but I also had that problem
with this card on RH 8 (also orinoco_pci) and was thinking it was the
card. Perhaps it is the driver.

Craig

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