After a little more research, and trying a debian etch netinstall iso, which gave me the same results. I have concluded that my Orinoco 802.11b silver card has given up the ghost.
I had that card for over 5 years, got it in 2000, or 2001 when Wireless networking first started to get going. That card was a great little card, lasted all these years and various systems. Before giving up totally I tried it in a Windows notebook, which could not detect my network either. I was using a 2.6.12 kernel, like I said it was up for 58 days without any problems. So I took apart the card, and I did smell a little ic burnt smell, after looking at the card some more everything looked good except that little ic. I guess the heat finally killed it, since the card is so close to the cpu when it's inserted. It was also used in a pvr, with poor air flow, along with a desktop for a few years also poor air flow out of the case. sniff, sniff I will miss ya, nice little card! I guess it will have to be ethernet only laptop. But that duron 800 is doing good, I am surprised it lasted this long. On my wife's 600m Dell it's on its third motherboard, I do not dare run RC5-72 on it, because I believe that is what caused the other board failures. Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
