Problems with pcmcia card: crashing, etc

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Problems with pcmcia card: crashing, etc

#1 Post by carenrose »

I have a Dell TrueMobile wifi adapter pcmcia card thing. (I'm using it right now so I can't yet pull it out and tell you anything more.)

It works, well, sometimes.

It has the same problems in 431 and in Wary. Most of the time, it apparently cannot scan for wireless networks (or connect to any.) Xautoconnect will give the message "interface does not support scanning." It requires removing and reinserting the card to work properly (sometimes many, many times, checking to see if it works each time. Sometimes it works right away, sometimes I give up and try restarting.) When it works, it works really pretty well! Can pick up networks my phone or my old laptop couldn't.

Sometimes, and this is the big issue, when reinserting the card, it crashes. Everything. As in, holding down the power button to get it to do anything. :( :( No chance to find out any info there.

Occasionally, this will happen when booting the OS ... (I've only ever had this happen in Wary, but possibly only because I use it more.)
Then I get potentially useful information. But then I don't know what to do with it. Here it is:

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[<c1039a20>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x1a/0x96
[<c103ab67>] ? handle_level_irq+0x50/0x95
[<c10041ab>] ? handle_irq+0x17/0x1c
[<c1003dcd>] ? do_IRQ+0x2b/0x76
[<c1002e09>] ? common_interrupt+0x29/0x30
[<c1030000>] ? print_tickdevice+0x124/0x265
[<c103a078>] ? __setup_irq+0x1d9/0x25a
[<f85043f8>] ? orinoco_interrupt+0x0/0x404 [orinoco]
[<c103a1c0>] ? request_threaded_irq+0xc7/0xf4
[<c11e0e67>] ? pcmcia_request_irq+0x107/0x201
[<f851e158>] ? orinoco_cs_probe+0xb0/0x198 [orinoco_cs]
[<c11dfaf3>] ? pcmcia_device_probe0xc9/0x13a
[<c11955de>] ? driver_probe_device+0x75/0xfc
[<c11956a5>] ? __driver_attach=0x40/0x5b
[<c1195073>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x37/0x5f
[<c11954c6>] ? driver_attach+0x11/0x13
[<c1195665>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x5b
[<c1194b3a>] ? bus_add_driver+0x99/0x1c5
[<c11958bf>] ? driver_register+0x87/0xe0
[<c11e05a8>] ? pcmcia_register_driver+0xa8/0xd4
[<f8522000>] ? init_orinoco_cs+0x0/0x1b [orinoco_cs]
[<c100112b>] ? do_one_initcall+0x43/0x11f
[<c1037d35>] ? sys_init_module+0xa7/0x1da
[<c1002794>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
I also attached the picture I took, in case I made any typos.

Anyways, that's it.
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#2 Post by Semme »

Hi Caren- to confirm, what do you get for this with the card plugged: lspci -nn | grep -i card

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#3 Post by carenrose »

00:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller [1524:1410]


Edit: by the way, Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series

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#4 Post by Karl Godt »

You can do nothing with that kernel output . It shows function names of the kernel and the orinocco driver that are segfaulting . Kernel drivers are getting updated but many stay as they are. The only thing i could advise is to try to recompile the kernel of different versions , or it has to do with the glibc-2.10.x of wary(which is not so easy to compile and install without screwing things).

As a temporary fix i would add panic=15 to the kernel line after vga=normal in the grub menu.lst . panic=SECONDS would reboot the kernel in SECONDS instead of having it to hard poweroff . Have not seen any linux distro adding that parameter by default (!GAMBLERS!) .

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#5 Post by ally »

just googling around found this:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=279944

HTH

:)

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#6 Post by carenrose »

ally wrote:just googling around found this:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=279944

HTH

:)
Well ... um ... :oops:
So far it seems to have worked. Of course, that's just rebooting, and having it work straight away, which sometimes happens. Will see how it goes. :D
Also I had forgotten WPA wasn't working!

@Karl Godt: Thanks, have added that. Very helpful, in fact I have used it before when having problems ... :oops:
(which is not so easy to compile and install without screwing things).
Yeah :(

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#7 Post by ally »

as long as it's sorted it's all good

:)

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#8 Post by rjbrewer »

Truemobile 1150 only handles 802.11b.
Old Orinoco, No WPA?

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#9 Post by carenrose »

No such luck. Still the same problems.

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#10 Post by linuxcbon »

Can you type "lsmod | grep yenta" and paste output ?

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#11 Post by carenrose »

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yenta_socket           16255  3 
rsrc_nonstatic          6861  1 yenta_socket

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#12 Post by linuxcbon »

Can you try the latest puppy like Racy 5.5 ? Maybe this has been solved there ?

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#13 Post by carenrose »

Somehow I forgot this bit ...
When I told it to load hostqtip_cs over orinoco it decided not to . . So when I got it to load it didn't work with the card ... ni lights, not registering

Is there anything else I have ti do that maybe I'm missing? Other than just get the module to load



Edit: hostap not hostqtip

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#14 Post by rjbrewer »

carenrose wrote:Somehow I forgot this bit ...
When I told it to load hostqtip_cs over orinoco it decided not to . . So when I got it to load it didn't work with the card ... ni lights, not registering

Is there anything else I have ti do that maybe I'm missing? Other than just get the module to load

Edit: hostap not hostqtip
Wary:
Run Puppy connect wizard.
1st window "load modules"
find and click hostap_cs pcmcia

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Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#15 Post by carenrose »

Ok. Did that. Did not work.

Tried ndiswrapper as well while I was there but "blahblahblah is an invalid driver" whatever.

If I could find another version of the windows driver it would be great, lol ... but every single one I find is the same version that doesn't work. :?

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Edit:
I bought a newer, faster card that's not a dell (I don't like dell ...) and I'm using it right now! I also found an internal wlan card that I don't know if it will work or not ... going to try it! :D

But yeah, never did get the Dell one to work right.

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