Orinoco Gold + Prism II

Upon putting either my orinoco gold or Prism II card into the cardbus slot I recieve a "Kernel Bug" message and the system becomes unusable. If I start the computer with one of the cards in it hangs with a message saying modprobe has exited abnormally.

Any ideas?

Hi,

exactly the same here, with my Zcom 325HP (PCMCIA Card) in my Dell Inspiron 8600.

PLEASE HELP!!

Thanks,
Coopers

Hmm, maybe it's an inspiron related problem rather than a card one as I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1100?

I don't think that it is an "Dell-Problem" in the "WORKING HARDWARE" Thread are also Dell Notebooks listed...

It could be something to do with the drivers for the cardbus slot though...

I am having the same problem with those cards and have tried it on 3 different laptops. My dell is an inspiron 6000.

I SOLVED THE PROBLEM !!!!! :D

If your Dell Notebook freezes while booting or when you insert your PCMCIA Card, here ist the Solution.

You have to exclude IRQ 3 in the file config.opts and kick the/all Adress with 08xxx...

and

you have to exclude all other drivers than "hostap_cs" in the blacklist.

THATS ALL.... :mad::D

All that is a very special Problem of Dell Notebooks.

Now after hours of testing i think, i can help many "Dell Users" with their Problem.

Tired Greetz,
Coopers

Doesn't seem to work for me on a Dell Inspiron 1100
As soon as I connect my card the system freezes with flashing keyboard lights indicating a Kernel Panic?

My Orinoco Gold Card dumps when I insert it as well. Using flux, I am still able to get a command prompt and can capture the dump if anyone wants me to post it.

Dell D610
Orinoco Gold WaveLAN Turbo 11Mb

Ouput (condensed):
kernel BUG in lib/iomap.c:106!
invalid opcode: 0000 (#1)
....
Process modprobe
....
udevd-event[6261]: run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit
....

tried a IBM laptop and a Dell Laptop with lucent ornico gold same problems