On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:27:50PM -0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
> Is there any drivers for wavelan PCMCIA cards?
> Those that are attach to a PCMCIA/ISA converter or PCMCIA/PCI converter?
There certainly are. I have them and they work like a charm.
> from pcmcia package I didn't found anything.
What version pcmcia package? They are certainly present
in pcmcia-cs-3.1.14. I'm not sure how far back they go but the
present ones support the Wavelan cards based on the Lucent
chipset and support the WEP encryption and roaming just fine.
In fact, IMHO, I think they're superior to the drivers that come
on the CD with the Lucent cards (Yes! They really did include
Linux drivers on their CD!).
Gotchas... Do NOT load the drivers from the Lucent CD
or follow those instructions if you are using the 3.x pcmcia
package! That package already knows about its own drivers and
won't load the Lucent drivers. Consequently, if you follow the
Lucent instructions for configuration options, you find that they
have no effect because you are configuring options for modules that
never get loaded.
To configure wavelan specific cruft like channels,
network name, keys, and the like, you are going to need the
wireless tools, available from the same site as the pcmcia package.
You also have to configure the kernel for wireless support.
I created an ifup.wavelan for RedHat based on ifup but
with additions to use wavelan parameters from the ifcfg-wavelan0
file to drive the iwconfig command from the wireless package.
One other "gotcha" (or bug if you prefer). The newer encrypting
wavelan cards are 64 bit (Silver) or 128 bit (Gold) but the driver
reports 56 bit or 112 bit. The algorithm is RC4 and supports the
former pair. You just have to change two lines in wavelan_cs.c
to fix that, if it matters to you (probably doesn't - they configure
and work fine without the changes).
> I can help to test the drivers.
> --
> Bye
> Carlos Barros.
Mike
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