From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NrLCL-0005uZ-MT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:03:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3147E0CA5 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1479E0B4F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4a59b202.dyn.optonline.net [74.89.178.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o2G0fWKc001524 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:41:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 217E419D922; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:41:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] getting firmware for orinoco pcmcia card References: <58965d8a1003151511q304749edk5ea289d0a08ac652@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:41:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <58965d8a1003151511q304749edk5ea289d0a08ac652@mail.gmail.com> (Paul Hartman's message of "Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:02 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 82aa21ad-91e2-42d8-905b-16b59b2e52d4 X-Archives-Hash: b23b46912030646f257c49760e6c2814 At Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:02 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin. >> >> I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the >> wireless "works fine", but is not right. >> >> When booting there is a very long delay at the net.eth1 and the system >> wants the agere_sta_fw.bin firmware. If you wait it out, it eventually >> proceeds and the wireless works. I assume I should be getting the >> firmware, but I don't know from where. I did emerge the orinoco-fwutils >> but that doesn't have firmware or say where to get it. > > You have to find and download the windows drivers for your device and > extract the firmware out of them, then rename it and put it in > /lib/firmware. See here: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco#device_firmware > > A google search turned up this firmware link: > http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-devel&m=121078835610877&q=p3 First and foremost, thanks. Ouch. I see from your web page that for wpa I do need the firmware. I may try to limp along without the firmware. As I mentioned the card does work but delay booting by minutes. Thanks again, allan