dngrmous

Sure thing...

$ dmesg
...
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
cs: memory probe 0xf6000000-0xfbffffff: excluding 0xf6000000-0xfa7fffff 0xfae00000-0xfb3fffff
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
eth2: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0000
eth2: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048
eth2: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.72
eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth2: MAC address 00:60:1D:F0:39:EA
eth2: Station name "HERMES I"
eth2: ready
eth2: index 0x01: , irq 3, io 0xd100-0xd13f

Oh crud... it's running firmware 8.72, not 6.16! Whoops! Guess that "might" explain why the monitor mode is not working with my card and the default FC5 Orinoco drivers. Ugh... unfortunately, I don't know where to get a hold of the older Orinoco firmware revisions. Perchance could someone point me in the right direction?

I don't suppose plasmahh might be working on an updated 0.13e driver for 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5, eh? Nah, I'm probably not that lucky. Of course, even if he were, I still hate the idea of having to recompile the bloody kernel just to get it working.

Since you asked for it, I've listed a copy of my "lspci" output below. Note that this laptop also has a built-in Broadcom 43xx series wireless adapter.

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)

Thanks for the help!

King_Ice_Flash

http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html for the flash.

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dngrmous

Thanks, unfortunately all of the firmware links on that page are broken.

King_Ice_Flash

Figures... Try this one:
http://otaku42.de/download/orinoco/firmware/

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dngrmous

Thanks for the firmware link. Although I haven't tried installing an older Orinoco firmware on my Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE Gold card yet, I thought I should mention that in addition to the Lucent card, I also have a Dell TrueMobile 1150 802.11b card (which is really just a rebranded Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE Gold card). My Dell card is running Orinoco firmware v6.16 (as opposed to the v8.72 firmware on my Lucent card), so I plugged in the Dell card and voila, monitor mode works with it on my FC5 system with the default/built-in Orinoco driver!

I'll try reflashing my Lucent card with one of the older Orinoco firmware revisions to see if that will fix the problem with it.

Thanks for the help!

warnockm

Hey, i'm following this thread because i'm having the same issue. Just curious if you guys resolved the orinoco/FC5 issues. I'm running the same drivers, Lucent/Agere 8.72 firmware, and the dragorn drivers do not compile, monitor mode is not turned on either. Do i have to flash to the older firmware, or do something to get the dragorn drivers to compile?

thanks

King_Ice_Flash

Flashing with a older firmware is definately the easiest way to go. I think I used 7.52. It looks like it was one of the kernel patches they used that is stopping the Plasmah Orinoco drivers from compiling. Dragorn's drivers are really broke for fc5. Have not had much more of a chance to look at it and probably won't because FC6 is right around the corner. We will see what they break in that release.

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warnockm

Interesting... i'll give it a try. So the firmware removed the monitor mode, and using the older firmware, there is no need for different drivers, like 0.13e?

warnockm

dang, now i'm real confused. my card says "Enterasys RoamAbout DS" on the outside, and the dmesg says "Lucent/Agere 8.72" so i'm sure i have what we are talking about, but i downloaded a couple of the old firmware's and got the error message: No Wireless Card Driver Found. Make sure the right driver is installed, and the wireless card is installed. The card works fine in windows, but the firmware patch can't find it. ideas??

King_Ice_Flash

Doh, those Enterasys cards can be tricky.

Sounds like you need to some driver hex editing. Take a look through these threads. Otherwise, if you find the flash from Enterasys, you can use that too. the newest release from Enterasys was one of the 6.x versions.

http://netstumbler.org/showthread.ph...ht=orinoco+hex
http://netstumbler.org/showthread.ph...ht=orinoco+hex

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beakmyn

Because I'm actually in the process or helping someone else out through email who's using Familiar I came across this that might be helpful:
http://www.nervous.it/hw/dlink_dwl660_orinoco.html

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warnockm

OK, thanks to both for your help. I found the Enterasys drivers (which came up as cabletron), however, even it said that my drivers were not found! Then i realized that this card had Orinoco Gold Classic 8.72 firmware put on it. Does that affect what the firmware is looking for? Can't seem to backtrack to an old firmware, can't seem to compile the dragorn drivers in FC5/2.6.17...

warnockm

Got it patched. Thanks for the hex editor instructions! still no monitor mode on 8.10...

King_Ice_Flash

Any 8.x firmware version has been blacklisted from the .15 Orinoco drivers. You need to use a version 6.X or 7.X. 7.52 would probably be my first choice.

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warnockm

Ah, luck is not on my side. for some reason, the 8.xx and 6.xx drivers work when edited, but the 7.xx ones do not. since i couldn't use 8.xx, i had to go down to 6.xx. however, monitor mode now works! thanks king!