Problem with Prism2v2, Orinoco gold or PCMCIA

[Krisse]

I am trying to get a Orinoco Gold PCMCIA Wifi running but doesn't happen. Tried it the first time two years ago and it didn't happen then either, also couldn't find any help (0 answers) from another forum so this time I'll try here.

Installation of Prism2v2 (which people seem to use with this) goes all ok, but when wirelessmanager tries to start it (either commanding manually 'C:WirelessManager prism2.device' or the installer-made users-startup -file) I get "Failed to initialize driver interface".

I get the same result with a standard Escom A1200 (HD) and a A600 Softkicked 3.1 (Prism doesn't install on older versions) + Workbench 2.0

With the A1200 I tried also the verbose mode and got "prism2.device:0' conf 'ENV:Sys/Wireless.prefs' driver 'default' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A", didn't try with A600 but guess it's the same.

It's a bit difficult to search about the problem as all the results about  Orinoco Gold seem to be about getting an internet connection (not jsut  getting the card to 'activate') or some completely different PCMCIA  stuff.

As the installation of Prism2v2 is really simple and the problem is so show-stopping, makes me think either the card doesn't work or maybe I need some 'pcmcia slot driver' first.  

What do you think?

[Krisse]

Photo of the card

Don't remember what I did two years ago with the A1200, but this time I was using the A600 and followed these instructions. It's a lot of text but it went like this:

Installed MUI (Don't know what it is and what's it for but did as instructed), went ok
Installed Prism2v2, went ok
Installed Miami, went ok

But when I started to configure Miami the problems started. You can search for "Miami already know the path" in the instructions so you'll see where I was.

When I typed in the the "prism2.device", I got an error message which I don't remember anymore. But it was something like can't find it, may be already in use or something like that.

Then I quit the configuration and started to troubleshoot and found the problem I mentioned in the first post:

> when wirelessmanager tries to start it (either commanding manually  'C:WirelessManager prism2.device' or the installer-made users-startup  -file) I get "Failed to initialize driver interface".

I don't understand much about what I'm doing, but as the wirelessmanager fails while booting the computer (the startcommand is automatically added to users-startup) it looks to me as the problem would be wirelessmanager <--> card rather than tcp/ip -stack or my router settings?

[Krisse]

Thank you for all the answers, unfortunately doesn't any better than earlier.

Tried a fresh install (A600, Skick 3.1, WB 40.42) today with all the help above in use, but still no. Snoopdos revealed some missing libraries (prometheus and powerpci) and downloaded them, cybpci.library I couldn't find but googling it I found that it is something that can't really be needed with a stock Amiga.

Two years ago when I tried this the last time, I began to think that maybe the card just doesn't work and as utri007 and mechy also suspected it might be faulty, guess I'll end it here and get a new one some day?

[Krisse]

Does your A600 have at least 020, because this is what the Prism2.device driver needs.

No, it's stock 68000 and all I've seen before is that prism needs KS3, not seen anything about 020. But nevertheless, didn't work with my A1200 either and afaik it has 68020.

Guess I'll just get another one.

[Krisse]

The card was dead.