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From: Pavel Roskin (proski_at_gnu.org)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 13:32:23 CDT

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    Hi, Michael!

    > I check in the kernel, and i see a M in face of Hermes chipset 802.11b
    > support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol) and PCMCIA/CardBus is not enable, does i
    > need to enable ?

    This means that you have hermes.o and orinoco.o from the kernel (that's
    one version), orinoco_cs.o comes from pcmcia-cs (presumably another
    version), and then you install orinoco-0.12b compiled against the kernel
    on top of that.

    Perhaps that's the most perversive configuration. I could not even
    imagine it :-)

    The orinoco driver as distributed by David Gibson is primarily written for
    testing and for integration into the kernel and pcmcia-cs. I tried to
    reinforce the Makefile for occasional users who want stand-alone
    compilation, but no Makefile can possibly outsmart everybody :-(

    Improvements in the documentation and further reinforcement of the
    Makefile are long overdue, and will be done time permitting. Sorry for
    inconvenience.

    Until then, please do following:

    1) Recompile the kernel without PCMCIA and without any Orinoco/Hermes
    support.

    2) Remove all your modules and reinstall them by "make modules_install"

    3) Copy all *.c and *.h files from the new orinoco driver to pcmcia-cs
    sources, directory "wireless".

    4) Recompile and install pcmcia-cs.

    Good luck!

    -- 
    Regards,
    Pavel Roskin