A hack to the orinoco driver in order to make it work with a Nortel Networks emobility PCI-Card.
My work is based on the hack provided by
Tobias Hoffmann
and the
orinoco-driver maintained by David Gibson.
The Orinoco Driver Page is
http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/
04/29/2006
I reconfigured my home net, and have the Adapter back in my 'offhand' PC
plus some spare time to cope around a bit:
installed the latest
Windows Driver
V3.9.2-67, Nov 04
Hints:
- modify the %SLA4113.DeviceDesc% keys in the file 'NetWlan5.inf' to PCI\VEN_126C&DEV_8030
- call the Hardwareassistant from Device Manager and point him to this file instead of using the dumbish setup.exe
The Driver worked quite well, the cards firmware was updated to V2.91-57 (at least the Utility says
so)
I booted back to Linux (Kernel 2.6.15, orinoco-0.15rc4) and was not able to get any link in ad-hoc Mode,
although the card looked ok (dmesg, ifconfig, iwconfig) and had worked the day before with Firmware V2.70-20 :(
Even stranger, orinoco reports
eth1: Firmware determined as Symbol V2.90-58
Reverted the Windows Driver to the older Mobile Companion version 3.7.0.94
and the behaviour was the same as under linux: Ad-Hoc Mode is broken, the card itself
is fine though, scanning for APs works, Firmware is reported as V2.90-58
It looks to me like Firmware V2.91-57 is located in RAM rather than in the cards ROM?
and there are Issues with Ad-Hoc-Mode in Firmware V2.90-58 (at least with my setup).
The Symbol site says integrated Firmware was V2.92-58
05/26/2004 This Website is obsolete now ;-)
orinoco-0.15rc1 includes a working module called 'orinoco_nortel'
Go get it:
http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/
I am running this on a 2.6.5 i686-smp kernel with Firmware V2.70-20
There is a newer Firmware version available on the
Symbol Site,
but i had no time to deal with it yet.
Older Symbol Firmwares may still be available
here.
02/18/2004 The driver is in Orinoco CVS!
Thanks to Pavel Roskin there are no more modifications needed to the hermes part of the driver.
See
http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=orinoco for instructions how to
access Orinoco CVS.
Note: the module was renamed to orinoco_nortel.
So make shure to remove the nortel_pci module and to update your modules.conf, aliases, etc.
orinoco-0.13e+nortel_pci.tar.gz
Release Date 08/21/2003
should fix the following problem:
kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=e5d5, TXCOMPLFID=6bbb, EVSTAT=0000
kernel: orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=df098400)
orinoco-0.13d+nortel_pci.tar.gz
Release Date 05/06/2003
I am running this with Firmware V2.70-20
included in the 'Mobile Companion Client Software Bundle'
found on the Symbol Site, intended for the 'LA 4123 PCI Adapter'.
-- You may need a (somewhat) running Windoze Installation to perfom the update.
++ dramatically improved 'ad-hoc' operation.
orinoco-0.13a+nortel_pci.tar.gz
Release Date 02/18/2003
This one is known to work with Firmware V2.20-02
I had this one running fine for about 2 months.
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Last changed: 06/05/2006 CJ
