[LUAU] Wireless Linux Error

[Alex Boatwright]

> Have you tried orinoco_pci?

 I tried that and it wouldn't load beacuse of an IO/IRQ paramaters issue. To solve this would I have to edit my modules.pcimap file before I load it and if so, would I do that by just copying the information from the working driver in that file into the place of the orinoco_pci slot?

> I can't seem to find information on your card anywhere, do you have lspci output we can use to identify the card?

Here's the relevant information from the lspci::
00:06.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3890 (rev 01)

> I suspect the error is lack of fully implimenting wireless extensions
> (what wireless-tools uses) in the ndiswrapper driver.

I don't think that it would be just the ndiswrapper driver beacuse on another distro, I got the prism54 driver [http://www.prism54.org] to the same level. Could it be that there's something lacking in the current disto's wireless-tools? Another thing that caught my eye is that in an iwconfig output I get::

eth0      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/0  
          Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I could connect to the AP with windows under these settings, but I don't know what the NOT READY! means (other than the obvious). Is that because the interface isn't up, or some other inherent problem with how I set it up? Mode, ESSID, and channel were the only things iwconfig would let me set. When I tryed to set rate to "auto" [I assume the default, but I tried to set it just in case], I got this output::

Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
    SET failed on device eth0 ; Input/output error.

Thanks for your fast response to my last one,
-Alex
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