On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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!).
We recently purchased silver cards for the technical people in our Annapolis
office. We found that the driver from Lucent was much easier to use and was
significantly better than the driver in pcmcia-cs-3.1.14.
We used the driver from the web site, not a CD-ROM, so that might have had
some impact.
> 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 can just use module options. Reasons for getting the tools are
- you sometimes need to move locations
- you want to see the signal strength.
> 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
An actual bug: The Lucent driver has the same bug my drivers "grew". Some
kernel versions want dev_close(dev) to be called when the device is ejected
or the kernel will hang. This is a change in semantics that was never
advertised.
A two line patch fixes the problem.
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scyld Computing Corporation
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210
Annapolis MD 21403
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