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At Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:02 -0500 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin. |
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>> I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the |
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>> wireless "works fine", but is not right. |
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>> When booting there is a very long delay at the net.eth1 and the system |
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>> wants the agere_sta_fw.bin firmware. If you wait it out, it eventually |
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>> proceeds and the wireless works. I assume I should be getting the |
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>> firmware, but I don't know from where. I did emerge the orinoco-fwutils |
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>> but that doesn't have firmware or say where to get it. |
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> You have to find and download the windows drivers for your device and |
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> extract the firmware out of them, then rename it and put it in |
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> /lib/firmware. See here: |
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> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco#device_firmware |
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> A google search turned up this firmware link: |
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> http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-devel&m=121078835610877&q=p3 |
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First and foremost, thanks. |
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Ouch. I see from your web page that for wpa I do need the firmware. I |
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may try to limp along without the firmware. As I mentioned the card |
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does work but delay booting by minutes. |
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Thanks again, |
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allan |