Lucent Technologies Orinoco Gold

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:38:52AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <002d01c3709d$3bac7480$093d1581 at rehash>
>             "Michael Goffin" <neo at csh.rit.edu> writes:
> : I posted a week or two ago about having issues with my Orinoco Gold wireless
> : card not working in 5.1-current. It was suggested that I update the
> : firmware. The firmware upgrade did not work. Has anyone had issues with this
> : card in 5.1-current that they were able to resolve?
> 
> You might also want to try the owi driver.  It isn't supported, and
> may disappear soon, but it was created to try to fix the lucent
> support in the wi driver.  You can't have both the owi and wi drivers
> in the kernel at the same time.  owi is supported only as a module.
> If it doesn't work, then oh well.

What are the problems? I'm happily using my Lucent card without
problems. That is, I have less problems with it than I had with
an embedded PRISM3.

wi0: <Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 9 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:2d:09:71:2b
wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (6.6.1)
wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wi0: bad alloc 3d2 != ff, cur 0 nxt 0

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