Neither work well with N environments, even with channels tuned. Just to say that the age is showing through.
James On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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 Even if I need to use a newer version of the drivers, I'm sure 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >
