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carenrose
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 36
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 17:43 Post subject:
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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:
Code: | [<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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Semme

Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 7823 Location: World_Hub
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 18:15 Post subject:
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Hi Caren- to confirm, what do you get for this with the card plugged: lspci -nn | grep -i card
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carenrose
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 36
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 18:32 Post subject:
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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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Karl Godt

Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4208 Location: Kiel,Germany
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 18:47 Post subject:
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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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ally

Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1795 Location: lincoln, uk
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 18:52 Post subject:
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just googling around found this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=279944
HTH
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carenrose
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 36
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 19:06 Post subject:
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Well ... um ...
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.
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 ...
Quote: | (which is not so easy to compile and install without screwing things). |
Yeah
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ally

Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1795 Location: lincoln, uk
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 19:21 Post subject:
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as long as it's sorted it's all good
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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 19:50 Post subject:
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Truemobile 1150 only handles 802.11b.
Old Orinoco, No WPA?
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carenrose
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 36
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Posted: Thu 21 Mar 2013, 21:35 Post subject:
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No such luck. Still the same problems.
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linuxcbon
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1165
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar 2013, 00:46 Post subject:
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Can you type "lsmod | grep yenta" and paste output ?
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carenrose
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 36
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar 2013, 16:00 Post subject:
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Code: | yenta_socket 16255 3
rsrc_nonstatic 6861 1 yenta_socket |
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linuxcbon
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1165
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Posted: Sat 23 Mar 2013, 04:03 Post subject:
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Can you try the latest puppy like Racy 5.5 ? Maybe this has been solved there ?
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carenrose
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 36
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Posted: Sat 23 Mar 2013, 09:31 Post subject:
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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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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Sat 23 Mar 2013, 10:56 Post subject:
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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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carenrose
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 36
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Posted: Tue 26 Mar 2013, 23:13 Post subject:
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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!
But yeah, never did get the Dell one to work right.
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