Is your pcwl really cardbus? Or is it 16-bit PCMCIA?
The pcwl driver suffers from a bug that affects all PCI connected chips,
and, quite likely, would affect cardbus (32-bit) but not impact 16-bit
pcmcia.
The pcwl driver needs a lot of work, but I have back-burnered that
effort into oblivion. Maybe I should revive it.
The pcan driver is, IMO, in better shape in this regard.
-- Garrett
James Cornell wrote:
> I have an IBM Thinkpad T30 with a Cisco Mini-PCI 350 series adapter
> and a cardbus Lucent Orinoco WaveLan (Both 802.11b) that I am running
> with OpenSolaris Developer Edition 04/07 (NV62 I believe) which seem
> to be dropping connection when ifconfig iface dhcp is ran. I have a
> D-Link DI-624 802.11G router reset to factory settings with no
> security, and I am using wificonfig -i iface connect dlink to connect
> to the access point "dlink". I have flashed the firmware on the 350
> back to the recommended revision stated on the wlan page for
> OpenSolaris by using the bin file and ACU on Windows. Both adapters
> are dropping connection and will not work with static or dhcp. Oh,
> and I was able to cause a kernel panic by removing the WaveLan from
> the PCMCIA slot. The kernel module for pcwl seems to get stuck and
> is not removable with modunload -i id, even after I push the device
> down. I am using the kernel modules bundled with OpenSolaris, not
> the ones from the project page, although I have these too. Even if I
> need to use a newer version of the drivers, I'm sure that it
> disconnecting from the access point shouldn't be happening to both,
> even with the stock drivers provided by the distribution. Any ideas
> what's wrong? PS: Having WEP on makes no difference, setting the
> keyindex, wepkey, and essid parameters still result in it
> disconnecting with dhcp, and even after flushing routes and
> statically configuring, neither work.
>
> James Cornell
> Carcinogenic Studios
> http://www.carcinogenic-studios.com
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