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 1NrH1n-0003Iw-Ik for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:36:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3306CE09F7; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB55E09F7 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:35:32 +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 o2FKZWpJ029118 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:35:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id E5FBB19D922; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:35:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] getting firmware for orinoco pcmcia card Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:35:31 -0400 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: 67221d84-8552-4b7b-b495-5d58db483388 X-Archives-Hash: 9c861e4403a6f8c2f76a269f6174a0f9 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. Any help would be appreciated. thanks, allan