Hi, thanks for your help !!

I think that the problem is the pcmcia bridge, not the orinoco  card.

Using Linux the card and bridge works fine but with Windows XP the
pcmcia card can't find any free IRQ and not works (with the same
computer).

This is my dmesg with your hints :

roberto


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NetBSD 3.99.10 (MIKERNEL) #1: Tue Oct 25 21:11:39 ART 2005
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L
total memory =3D 255 MB
avail memory =3D 242 MB
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfb470
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: AMD Athlon (686-class), 994.74 MHz, id 0x681
cpu0: features c3cbfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features c3cbfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MPC,MMXX,MMX>
cpu0: features c3cbfbff<FXSR,SSE,3DNOW2,3DNOW>
cpu0: "AMD Athlon(tm) "
cpu0: I-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way
cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 64B/line 16-way
cpu0: ITLB 16 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associat=
ive
cpu0: DTLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu0: 8 page colors
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Nvidia nForce2 Host-PCI Bridge (rev. 0xc1)
agp at pchb0 not configured
Nvidia product 0x01ea (RAM memory, revision 0xc1) at pci0 dev 0
function 1 not configured
Nvidia nForce2 Memory Controller (RAM memory, revision 0xc1) at pci0
dev 0 function 2 not configured
Nvidia nForce2 Memory Controller (RAM memory, revision 0xc1) at pci0
dev 0 function 3 not configured
Nvidia nForce2 Memory Controller (RAM memory, revision 0xc1) at pci0
dev 0 function 4 not configured
Nvidia nForce2 Memory Controller (RAM memory, revision 0xc1) at pci0
dev 0 function 5 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0
pcib0: Nvidia nForce2 PCI-ISA bridge (rev. 0xa4)
Nvidia nForce2 SMBus Controller (SMBus serial bus, revision 0xa2) at
pci0 dev 1 function 1 not configured
ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Nvidia nForce2 USB Host Controller (rev. 0x=
a4)
ohci0: interrupting at irq 5
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Nvidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1 at pci0 dev 2 function 1: Nvidia nForce2 USB Host Controller (rev. 0x=
a4)
ohci1: interrupting at irq 11
ohci1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Nvidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 2: Nvidia nForce2 USB2 Host Controller (rev. 0=
xa4)
ehci0: interrupting at irq 4
ehci0: EHCI version 1.0
ehci0: companion controllers, 4 ports each: ohci0 ohci1
usb2 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Nvidia EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
Nvidia nForce2 Ethernet (ethernet network, revision 0xa1) at pci0 dev
4 function 0 not configured
auich0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: nForce2 MCP-T AC-97 Audio
auich0: interrupting at irq 7
auich0: ac97: Avance Logic ALC650 codec; 20 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, Realtek 3D
auich0: ac97: ext id 5c7<AC97_22,LDAC,SDAC,CDAC,SPDIF,DRA,VRA>
ppb0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: Nvidia nForce2 PCI-PCI bridge (rev. 0xa3)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci1 dev 6 function 0: Cirrus Logic product 0x00d6 (rev. 0x02)
wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
fxp0 at pci1 dev 7 function 0: Intel i82557 Ethernet, rev 2
fxp0: interrupting at irq 5
fxp0: May need receiver lock-up workaround
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:20:35:e7:5b:18
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
cbb0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PCI-CardBus
Bridge (rev. 0x01)
cbb0: interrupting at irq 3
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 2
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
viaide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0
viaide0: NVIDIA nForce2 IDE Controller (rev. 0xa2)
viaide0: bus-master DMA support present
viaide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
viaide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
atabus0 at viaide0 channel 0
viaide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
viaide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
atabus1 at viaide0 channel 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0: Nvidia nForce2 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev. 0xc1)
pci2 at ppb1 bus 3
pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled
isa0 at pcib0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43: AT Timer
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
pcppi0: attached to attimer0
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
auich0: measured ac97 link rate at 48001 Hz, will use 48000 Hz
audio0 at auich0: full duplex, mmap, independent
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <ST320014A>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 19092 MB, 38792 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 39102336 sector=
s
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd0(viaide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA=
)
atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <CW088D ATAPI CD-R/RW, NC000000Q0, V110F>
cdrom removable
cd0: 32-bit data port
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
cd1 at atapibus0 drive 1: <ATAPI CDROM  48X, , V130Y> cdrom removable
cd1: 32-bit data port
cd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
cd0(viaide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA)
cd1(viaide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA)
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
cbb0: wait took 0.015898s
pcmcia0: card appears to have bogus CIS