On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Matias Freytes wrote:
> Finally, the lab bougth wavelan turbo 11Mb/s (orinoco silver) wlan
> cards and a Datachute ISA-PCMCIA adapter for my desktop, and I have to
> make them work. I can't fail at this mission because I've been threatened
> with a M$ Win98 install cd :)
;)
> I've never used the PCMCIA, so any help or configuration files
> will be appreciated. As far as I understand I should use David Hind's
> pcmcia driver package, but what about 802.11 protocols? I know about
> Lucent's own development, Jean Torrouhilles' and absoval's linux-WLAN
> project. Where should I go?
A driver for the orinoco/wavelan cards is included in david hinds current
pcmcia-package (wvlan_cs), which works very well here. The current
lucent-driver (v 6.x) did'nt want to work with my old 2mbit cards, the
old version 3.x did.
> And now the ISA adapter. Should I see it as a PCMCIA or what? I
> guess not, but don't know anything about this stuff. Does it need it's own
> drivers?
I don't know about your isa-pcmcia-boards, but the one I've got here (sold
by lucent just after the 2mbit-802.11-cards came out) is simply a
pcmcia-controller on an isa board. the config I'm using for it:
# Should be either i82365 or tcic
PCIC=i82365
# Put socket driver timing parameters here
PCIC_OPTS="i365_base=0x3e2"
# Put pcmcia_core options here
CORE_OPTS=
# Put cardmgr options here
CARDMGR_OPTS=
(even hotswap works, but it's a little bit difficult bedind the tower ;)
everything else is the same as for an standard pcmcia laptop (A little bit
strange to handle the desktop-machine like a laptop-setup, but thats the
way it works).
hope it helps, feel free to ask more questions...
c'ya
sven
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