On Friday 15 February 2002 01:03 pm, Rick Barnes wrote:
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Are you using one of Mantel's kernels? One (or possibly more) of the 2.4.16 kernels he made available broke orinoco. I stuck with my wired connection for a while and upgraded to a newer kernel when I had the time. I'm now using his k_deflt-2.4.17-36 and it works beautifully. In fact, I'm sending this very email through one.
I am currently using the k_deflt-2.4.16-22 from the update/kernel section. I tried d/l and installing 2.4.17 b ut it broke the nvidia drivers and i could not get the nvidia drivers to recompile. A make install of NVIDIA_kernel would always give an error about couldn't give kmap_pagetable... so i returned to 2.4.16 and the nvidia drivers work great.
Rick
I have the same problem with the 2.4.16 kernel available from the suse ftp update directory with respect to the orinoco driver. I have tried to recompile the pcmcia module and the orinoco drivers, but same results that you get. I can use the wvlan driver OK, but I don't think that I get very good throughput on the connection. I've been waiting for an official kernel update before trying another kernel to see if that fixes the problem. Perhaps I'll try the unofficial 2.4.17 kernel build since the laptop I have does not have an nvidia card. -ronc