>>On the machines with Orinoco, I'm getting this in syslog:
>>
>>Feb 16 22:04:03 lintu ntpd[1818]: time reset 5.195761 s
>>
>>Has anyone else noticed symptoms like this?
>
>On a Dell Inspiron 8000 ntpd isn't able to keep the time
>synchronized either. It does currently not have a Orinoco
>card installed, but the wi driver is configured in the
>kernel.
>
>So I doubt it is related to the Orinoco driver itself but
>maybe to the pcmcia driver in general.

i've seen the timekeeping problem myself, but i use pc cards all the
time, and i only ever noticed the time problem after periods of use of
the wireless card.  other cards elicit no such problem.

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