On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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.
Ok. That's more than I need. And appears to be working good.
If I see something I'll tell you.
Thanks to you and linux-net.
--
Bye
Carlos Barros.
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