orinoco pcmcia gold fails until prism2_plx is unloaded

[Mark S. Rice]

I have an ancient orinoco gold card in a pci to cardbus bridge. When I ran edgy RC from the live CD it did not work. It indicated "no wireless extensions for wlan0". I unloaded the prism2_plx module and then everything worked.

commands to unload prism2_plx to get the wireless to work:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe -r prism2_plx
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe -r orinoco_plx
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe -r orinoco
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe -r hermes
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe orinoco_plx

I thought I would have to blacklist the prism2_plx in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
But after I did the install, everything worked without any tinkering. It even set up the encryption key!

lspci:
mrice@Cinder:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 04)
01:02.0 Network controller: Global Sun Technology Inc PCMCIA-to-PCI Wireless Network Bridge (rev 02)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug before the final version of Edgy was released. We were wondering is this still an issue with Edgy? Thanks in advance.

[Mark S. Rice (mr-ice)]

Brian Murray wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. You reported this bug before the final version of Edgy was
> released. We were wondering is this still an issue with Edgy? Thanks
> in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
>
Your email was very timely. I have not had any problems until a few
weeks ago. With the kernel update 2.6.17-11, the wireless stopped
working. So I was selecting 2.6.17-10 on boot to get it to work.

The email just reminded me of the earlier problem. So I just now
blacklisted prism2_plx in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Now the wireless
works with 1.6.17-11.

I originally just saw the problem with the live CD. But I removed and
reloaded kernel modules before I installed edgy to the hard drive.
Then everything worked until 2.6.17-11.

I have an old Orinoco gold card plugged into a PCI bus adapter. This
seems to be very happy with the orinoco_plx module.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Edgy Eft 6.10 has reached it's end of life. As a result, we are closing the linux-source-2.6.17 Edgy Eft kernel task.

Hardy Heron 8.04 was recently released. It would be helpful if you could test the new release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . You should be able to test your bug using the LiveCD. Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Unfortunately this bug report is being closed because we received no response to the last inquiry for information. However, the Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Beta release was most recently announced - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/beta . If you are able to confirm this is still an issue with this most recent release please feel free to reopen this report. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Per a decision made by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, bugs will longer be assigned to the ubuntu-kernel-team in Launchpad as part of the bug triage process. The ubuntu-kernel-team is being unassigned from this bug report. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies for more information. Thanks.

[Bobby Boy (bobby-boy-nyc)]

Hello, please give me a download link & instructions to load drivers for ORINOCO GOLD USB Client. I have an old GATEWAY and need WiFi to use it properly.
S. O. S.
Bobby Boy

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