Great… It seems that the latest Orinoco Client Manager does a “soft upgrade” of the firmware to the latest version. No wonder I haven’t been able to upgrade it myself. I think I might finally be downloading an old version so I can get the bloody firmware BACK to 6.06. Yay! That means no putting the Orinoco card in my XP box, though. Oh well. If anything, I just hope that this process is repeatable. It sucks having to deal with all of this. I just want it working.

Now if I had of left well enough alone and just slapped the card in a linux box to begin with, these problems wouldn’t be here… Oh well.

MORNING UPDATE:

Every version of the client manager seems to do this, but only to the latest version the client manager supports. So, who knows what version… The more I think about it, the more I’m thinking that the problems I’m having are related to something that I somehow hosed in my LFS install. I knew I should have backed it up before I started playing with PCMCIA. The reason I think this is because the NIC *DOES* work fine under Windows, and if I insert another PCMCIA wireless NIC (the Belkin) the box will core dump/hang this way too. I just wonder what it is… Oh well. I’m probably going to blow it away tonight and slap a Slackware install on it. Upgrade the kernel and PCMCIA and see if it still dies. I just hope not.