Michael:

The scanpci -v output for the "Airlink AWLC4130 Super G
Wireless Cardbus Adapter" is below:

---------------------------------------------
[... other system chipset output trimmed...]

pci bus 0x0005 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x168c device 0x0013
  Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC
  CardVendor 0x1948 card 0x3a02 (Card unknown)
   STATUS    0x0290  COMMAND 0x0006
   CLASS     0x02 0x00 0x00  REVISION 0x01
   BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0xa8  CACHE 0x10
   BASE0     0xe0210000  addr 0xe0210000  MEM
   MAX_LAT   0x1c  MIN_GNT 0x0a  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x04

pci bus 0x0005 cardnum 0x00 function 0x01: vendor 0x168c device 0xff96
  Atheros Communications, Inc.  Device unknown
  CardVendor 0x168c card 0xee96 (Card unknown)
   STATUS    0x0290  COMMAND 0x0000
   CLASS     0x07 0x00 0x02  REVISION 0x01
   BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x80  LATENCY 0x00  CACHE 0x00
   BASE0     0x00000001  addr 0x00000000  I/O
   MAX_LAT   0x00  MIN_GNT 0x00  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x00
---------------------------------------------
==============================================================

The scanpci -v out for the "Airlink AWLC3026 802.11g Wireless
LAN PC Card" is below:

---------------------------------------------
[... other system chipset output trimmed...]

pci bus 0x0005 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x11ab device 0x1faa
  Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
   STATUS    0x02b0  COMMAND 0x0006
   CLASS     0x02 0x00 0x00  REVISION 0x03
   BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0xa8  CACHE 0x10
   BASE0     0xe0210000  addr 0xe0210000  MEM
   BASE1     0xe0220000  addr 0xe0220000  MEM
   MAX_LAT   0x00  MIN_GNT 0x00  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x10
   BYTE_0    0x01  BYTE_1  0x00  BYTE_2  0x02  BYTE_3  0x00
---------------------------------------------

Neither card has any explicit text or label indicating a revision
number other than the FCC ID, serial number and MAC address.
If you need specific platform chipset output, just let me know.

-James



Mikore.Li at sun.com wrote:
> 
> 
> James C. Liu, IHV OEM Engineering wrote:
>> Folks:
>>
>> Just wanted to report how happy I was today with my new
>> purchases of some very inexpensive pcmcia wifi-G cards.
>>
>> It began when my colleagues and I headed over to
>> Fry's Electronics during lunch to pick up a couple of
>> Airlink 101 AWLC4130 wifi cards.
>>
>> They were on sale for just $14 ea. limit 2 per person.
>>
>> When I got home to test them, they showed up as
>> Atheros 5212/5213 chipset devices and I was immediately
>> able to use WEP and access my home wifi network and
>> get out.
>>
>> Feeling good about wifi, I decided to look in my spare-parts
>> bin.  I had some older AWLC3026 cards whichI bought
>> last year but there was no driver then.  I tried them again
>> and saw that /usr/X11/bin/scanpci said they were Marvell/Libertas
>> cards.  So I checked Opensolaris.ORG and found out about the new
>> malo driver.  So I downloaded both the malo 1.3 firmware and
>> v0.1 source tarballs, built it as instructed and got those cards
>> to work and link up.
>>
>> The malo-0.1 driver did lock up my entire OS
>> when I attempted to use inetmenu to reconfigure a 2nd time.
>> The first time seems to be fine.  
> Hi, James,
> 
> Please send output of "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v" to me, then I can check it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
>> But overall, I was quite
>> happy that I could use these cards now as well.
>>
>> But not a bad experience with wifi today.  Just thought
>> you might want to change the OpenSolaris report for malo
>> driver and also add the airlink 101 entry to the ath driver
>> supported HCL.
>>
>> -James
>>   

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