Arthur Maciel wrote:
> Hi, under SciLinux 3 (various sub-versions) my wireless
> - PCI external adapter card -
> 
> HardwareList.Wireless.eth1.Status=ok
> HardwareList.Wireless.eth1.Name=eth1
> HardwareList.Wireless.eth1.Type=Wireless
> HardwareList.Wireless.eth1.Card.ModuleName=orinoco_cs
> HardwareList.Wireless.eth1.Description=
>              Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter
> 
> worked flawlessly. Now under SL4.4 it fails 9/10 tries, 
> and keeps producing this message,
> 
> . Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 18
> . of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 16.
> . Some things may be broken...
> 
> Any clues as to a possible cure ? Or, alternatively, some
> recommendation of an external adapter that is success-off-
> the-box for SL4 ?


I've used Orinocco Silver PCCARDs with FC3 (approximately RHEL4) and FC5 
with no problems whatsoever. I've neen that message regularly, and for 
me it seems to not matter. These cards use the same driver.

In a WBEL4 (Nahant-clone) box, I'm using this:
[root@ns ~]# lspci -s 00:09.0 -vv
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
         Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 1051
         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size 40
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 217
         Region 0: Memory at cfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-


It's a tp-link, I'm fairly sure this: 
http://www.comwiz.net.au/shop_item.asp?StockCode=TL-WN651G chosen 
because I can replace the antenna.

I use the madwifi driver, but the site has an alternative driver which I 
see is appearing in recent Fedoras, so is probably worth a try - madwifi 
will never appear in RHEL because it's partly a binary blob, but the 
other may.




> 
> Meanwhile, I try to study "Wireless Tools for Linux" in
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Arthur
> 


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Cheers
John

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