Wireless does not work on Sony Vaio SRX 87P for hoary

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:00:47PM -0800, Sanjeev Das wrote:

> I am using the hoary live CD (array 4) on my Sony VAIO SRX 87P that 
> has an orinoco wireless lan mini pci card. Wireless didn't work out 
> of the box. network-admin shows only the modem and the wired ethernet.
> 
> Installation seems to have detected the card because it asked for the
> wireless ssid for eth1.
> 
> Tried
> modprobe orinoco_pci
>
> and added
> 
> alias eth1 orinoco_pci 
> to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
> 
> in order to get things to work.

Neither of these should have made a difference; if the installer saw the
card, then the proper driver was already loaded.

> iwconfig eth1 essid xxx enc yyy complains that SET failed. No device 
> eth1 found.
> 
> So, am i doing something wrong?

Please file a bug (component: 'linux') and attach the output from the
'dmesg' and 'lspci' commands.

-- 
 - mdz