Category: LAN Pc card
Manufacturer: Orinoco
Caution Level: intermediate
Download File Size: 8bytes
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP
Latest Version / Release Date: 5 volts / 21 Sep 2003

Windows device driver information for ORiNOCO PC Card (5 volt) This is a data transfer function that effectively exploits SAN environments by moving back-end and IT data transfers from data networks and communication networks. The band width of a LAN communication can be used to enhance service levels for ebd users and customers. The drivers for Intersil PRISM Wireless LAN PC Card (5-Volt) for Windows 7 x64 were not found in the catalog. Download DriverPack to select the driver automatically.

Windows device driver information for ORiNOCO PC Card (5 volt)

This is a data transfer function that effectively exploits SAN environments by moving back-end and IT data transfers from data networks and communication networks. The band width of a LAN communication can be used to enhance service levels for ebd users and customers. The data transfer capabilities of a LAN are available from several companies. SANs provide an alternative path for data transfer between client and server. LAN exploits this SAN path by the enabling of client back up and restoration of data directly to and from SAN attached storage. The storage is shared between the server storage that is managed by the server. The existing LAN connection issued to exchange and control information such as meta data and policy information. The data movement utilizes the SAN to write directly to storage media. Data movement is off loaded from LAN to the server.

Outdated Drivers?

Unless you update your drivers regularly you may face hardware performance issues.

To check your drivers you should manually verify every device on your system for driver updates

LAN has a free client that communicates with the server so as to obtain and store database information. The server determines if the client is making a request to access storage data for the client for which he has a SAN path defined. If there is a defined path the data is transmitted through it. Data transfer by LAN is used by SAN tape library. The library manager manages the storage hierarchy and performs the server functions including the storage pool, reclamation, collocations and back up. Orinoco product is made by proxim, both from IEEE 802. 11b and 802. 11g standards compliant access points have been deployed. The maximum connection speed of a 802. 111b access point and the client is 11Mbps, whereas that between a 802. 11g access point and the client is mostly 54Mbs. Each access point has different response speed with the client. It is highly recommended you run a free registry scan for Windows and ORiNOCO PC Card (5 volt) errors before installing any driver updates.

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This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on the Hermes I (Lucent/Agere) and Spectrum24 Trilogy (Symbol) chipsets; using the Orinoco driver on Debian systems.

Contents

1. Hermes I and Spectrum24 Trilogy devices (orinoco)

This page is about the Orinoco driver. See Wikipedia for information about the ORiNOCO brand.

Driver

The Orinoco driver is a collection of modules providing support for various 802.11b devices, based on the Hermes I and Spectrum24 Trilogy chipsets:

• airport (supported devices)

  • Supports the AirPort card (not AirPort Extreme).

• orinoco_cs (supported devices)

  • Supports Hermes I (Lucent/Agere) PCMCIA/PC Card devices.

• orinoco_nortel (supported devices)

  • Supports Hermes I (Lucent/Agere) PC Card devices using the Nortel PCI bridge.

• orinoco_plx (supported devices)

  • Supports Hermes I (Lucent/Agere) PC Card devices using the PLX9052 PCI bridge.

• orinoco_tmd (supported devices)

  • Supports Hermes I (Lucent/Agere) PC Card devices using the TMD7160 PCI bridge.

• orinoco_usb (supported devices)

  • Supports Hermes I (Lucent/Agere) based USB devices.
  • Introduced in Linux 2.6.35.

• spectrum_cs (supported devices)

  • Supports Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy-based PC Card and Compact Flash devices.
  • Introduced in Linux 2.6.14.

Previous support for Prism 2/2.5/3 chipsets (orinoco_pci module) is disabled by default since Linux 2.6.35¹, see hostap for device support. For support of Prism-based USB 802.11b devices, see linux-wlan-ng.

As of Linux 2.6.28, downloading of firmware to volatile memory (RAM) and WPA support is available for Hermes I-based devices. For WPA support, firmware version 9.42 (or later) is required. The Orinoco driver will attempt to download firmware from userspace during device initialization.

Firmware is required to be provided for Spectrum24 Trilogy-based devices without flash memory (e.g. Intel WPC2011BWW, Socket Communications WL6000-320).

Installation

The Orinoco driver was introduced in Linux 2.4.3 and consists of modules in Debian Linux kernel images.

WPA (Hermes I only)

You can skip this section if WPA support is not required, or if your device has a Spectrum24 Trilogy chipset.

Firmware version 9.42 or later is required for WPA support:

1. Add a 'non-free' component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

2. Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-linux-nonfree package:

3. Continue with the procedure below.

General

1. For users with Spectrum24 Trilogy-based devices only: firmware is required for devices without flash memory. This can be downloaded and extracted using the get_symbol_fw script available from orinoco-fwutils:

2. Connect the device to your system. The necessary kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices.

3. Configure your interface as appropriate. See also troubleshooting and known issues.

Troubleshooting

• For WPA support on Hermes I-based devices, firmware version 9.42 or later is required to be downloaded to the card.

  • Ensure the Lucent/Agere station firmware (agere_sta_fw.bin) is available when requested, check the kernel ring buffer (dmesg(1)).

  • Ensure the firmware-linux-nonfree package is installed.

  • WPA capability can be verified by the presence of 'WPA-PSK supported' in the buffer:

  • See also known issues.

• Spectrum24 Trilogy-based devices without flash memory: Examine the kernel ring buffer (dmesg(1)) to verify required firmware files are being loaded by the driver. If requested firmware is not available, no wireless interface will be created.

  • Ensure the firmware files produced by the get_symbol_fw script (symbol_sp24t_prim_fw, symbol_sp24t_sec_fw) were moved to /lib/firmware.

Known Issues

WPA

• Supported with Hermes I-based (Lucent/Agere) devices only.

• Only WPA-PSK TKIP is supported.

  • You may need to prevent wpa_supplicant from initially using CCMP, for example in /etc/network/interfaces:

Monitor Mode

For Hermes I-based devices, Lucent/Agere firmware versions 7.xx and 8.xx are buggy with respect to monitor mode operation; the Orinoco driver will refuse to change to monitor mode if requested. Firmware versions <= 6.16 are required for this feature, see Other Notes regarding firmware flashing.

Monitor mode operation can be forced on buggy firmware versions by supplying force_monitor=1 as an option to the orinoco module:

Other Notes

The station firmware on Hermes I-based devices can only be permanently upgraded/downgraded (flashed) through utilities available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. With respect to the AirPort card, its firmware can be indirectly flashed during installation of some Mac OS X operating system versions.

Installation of the hostap-utils package will blacklist the Orinoco driver modules. This package should be purged from your system if not required.

Supported Devices

airport

Orinoco Wireless Lan Pc Card (5 Volt) Drivers

The AirPort card (not AirPort Extreme) is supported. This is an optional networking accessory for the following Apple systems:

• iBook G3 ('Clamshell', 'Dual USB / Snow')

• PowerBook G3 ('Firewire')

• Early-model PowerBook G4 ('Titanium')

• Other compatible systems (e.g. slot-loading iMacs with an AirPort card adapter)

orinoco_cs

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PC_Card explains how to identify a PC Card device.

Orinoco Wireless Lan Pc Card (5 Volt) Driver Windows 7

• Supported Devices

orinoco_nortel

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI explains how to identify a PCI device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of orinoco_nortel in Debian 3.16 (3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1) kernel images.

• Supported Devices

orinoco_plx

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI explains how to identify a PCI device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of orinoco_plx in Debian 3.16 (3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1) kernel images.

• Supported Devices

orinoco_tmd

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI explains how to identify a PCI device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of orinoco_tmd in Debian 3.16 (3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1) kernel images.

• Supported Devices

spectrum_cs

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PC_Card explains how to identify a PC Card device.

• Supported Devices

See Also

• hostap - Driver for Prism 2/2.5/3 chipsets (no USB support)

• linux-wlan-ng - Driver for Prism 2/2.5/3 USB chipsets

• orinoco_usb - Early model ORiNOCO USB 802.11b devices

• How to use a WiFi interface

External Links

• http://orinoco.nongnu.org/ - The Linux ORiNOCO Driver

• https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco - Driver page on Linux Wireless

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