Orinoco Gold + Prism II

[darkip]

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?

[coopers]

Hi,

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

PLEASE HELP!!

Thanks,
Coopers

[darkip]

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

[thrasher12ga]

Repro on Latitude D830 with Hermes I.

[coopers]

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

[darkip]

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

[Clarke]

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

[coopers]

I SOLVED THE PROBLEM !!!!!

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....

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

[darkip]

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?

[Birukun]

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
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udevd-event[6261]: run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit
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