Re: orinoco USB driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:53:25AM +0200, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:16:01PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> > I'm currently trying to get my Avaya Wireless 'Silver' USB device to
> > work with the orinoco_usb driver v0.2.1.
> > 
> > Firstly, it is not 'supported.' So I had to use force_unsupported=1.
> > But the firmware you download is from Avaya's site, so it seems to me
> > like it should work!
> > 
> > Here's what i get:
> > 
> > firesong:/usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1# modprobe orinoco_usb debug=1 force_unsupported=1
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c: Device is not supported (you may want to set force_unsupported=1)
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c: Trying to handle device anyway as requested
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c:bridge_probe: ENTER
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c: No firmware to download
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c:bridge_remove_in_urb: no urb to remove
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c:bridge_delete: ENTER
> > unregister_netdevice: device wlan%d/cf4f3000 never was registered
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c:bridge_delete: EXIT
> > /usr/src/orinoco-usb-0.2.1/driver/orinoco_usb.c:bridge_probe: EXIT
> > drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver Orinoco USB
> > orinoco_usb.c v0.2.1 (Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>)
> > 
> > The light does not come on and I don't get any device. I notice that the
> > firmware is loaded from a .SYS file and installed into the hotplug
> > /usr/lib directory. When is this loaded?
> > 
> > Do you have any pointers? It would be really nice to get the card to
> > work!
> 
>  You need a working hotplug package for the new driver to work.

What do you mean?  Does the base linux-hotplug scripts need to be
changed for this device somehow?

thanks,

greg k-h