Hi,
I just purchased a USB cf/sd card reader. It will arrive soon. I also have a cf wifi (802.11b) card that I use on my Sharp Zaurus. I strapped on a cf/pcmcia adapter on it and put it in my roommate's laptop. Upon booting knoppix to that laptop I saw that the card powered up and was connecting to wireless networks just fine using the "orinoco_cs" driver that knoppix loaded up automagically. On my Z, it uses the Prism driver to run (works there also). My desktop is running fc3 and I'd like to know if the cf card will work thru the USB card reader. From the content of my "/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.35_FC3/kernel/drivers/net/wireless" viz: airo_cs.ko atmel_pci.ko ipw2200 orinoco_pci.ko wavelan_cs.ko airo.ko hermes.ko netwave_cs.ko orinoco_plx.ko wavelan.ko atmel_cs.ko ieee80211 orinoco_cs.ko orinoco_tmd.ko wl3501_cs.ko atmel.ko ipw2100 orinoco.ko prism54 I see the orinoco_cs driver present (_cs means pcmcia, and pcmcia is essentially the same as cf with a higher voltage, right?). So if I hook up my USB cf card reader to my desktop, and my cf wifi card to the reader, will that work out (I do have a D-link internal wifi card in a PCI slot, but have to sacrifice that for my new Radeon 9250) , or do I need the usb ethernet emulation or some other sort of emulation to get it to work? Do these card readers only support mass-storage protocol or others too? Does it depend on manufacturer? Please let me know. I googled a bit but did not find anything concrete. Regards, AR ----------- Analabha Roy Graduate Student Department Of Physics University Of Texas 1 University Station C1600 Austin TX 78712-0264 United States Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel GPG Public Key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) mQGiBELnZssRBADctyS+0CaWErpib6j0wcM7aUl5J9I7TkUuqzi1W2hG0US/1jw+ OTtMap9mYFdOMmbWEyHJ3zUNLabe3fd4y5YSeglTtCYmlYIHJR1PmR2M+yP1q+VQ B0bQqgutFDTas3CnoucvZKs4J5x+T7V4lNNCcmFVI8zOsGZ5NG4yfPkPJwCgjy0c hJ0zDFa3Ado83pHsq5mjqM8EAIz4zt9qhqCCR8xnPePnmzb6v6Co0tF+a6Lt4KIe Oyqs5HgbORpJFBNMwEXpft+YaKu3Bv9/A1Bt0Po2WN1pDNV2q6m6pjc9oi5KeJOC /ohksAlIOPg2NTCV0c3Vtj/C7TEKTadQutPdiG6vhCtFPNIAf5oWBCmUg8bShTue QsQSA/9RKT5FUZuP5GuP6hoSW3ApEUEWbxwcBEnvOt+1TmLWSi09nIx0C6PwhW7B KUnBEWCxq0J45KtAkJ2TRuhoPc7jss3ScwX6gckYenIqlgcjt39IdmJ9pQPiLYmO eyRSE1tG98RHBT+138u3BAxJQRSovt6s27MpCkd64aD6r+S/dLQ9QW5hbGFiaGEg Um95IChJIGhhdmUgYSBodWdlIGRpY2spIDxkYW5lZWxAcGh5c2ljcy51dGV4YXMu ZWR1PohbBBMRAgAbBQJC52bLBgsJCAcDAgMVAgMDFgIBAh4BAheAAAoJENfzh7ua kt8BtE8AnA0vhDnWpUmdnif6f/khHgav/28WAJwP0AwiUetCHgAPlzGWxg7yuxcS /rkBDQRC52bNEAQAuFTwzaeSmwrF0vpib96cUJM14up47owBwmmTcb+X0TafM5Pp zcI8SKfdvpQzjmHIaKDrnS7tMT1rSv9IPMhKTVy8Ob9/6Fpeykm7ou/xw7WxHUQY k/CvtOXAiewLVAvk8wbG6QI3XgrrAXvCb9XBb0hEwVhVN4H5qy+KuKNzRJsAAwYE AI+Z/S8gwEhQUTbBgqsOjek8Fpa9LiwFCto5Vdjl16oVu2jwfjrc7X+HJYSBdQWJ g30dJOzT4BXoLbvoLv4UleuZk2seGoS27I+vStu+hP+++6hGRIUratMTMyE0DQzS rJK6EW9z+CBb9n8WHR/s8nPdBs/t/evblWV6uLn9kaQNiEYEGBECAAYFAkLnZs0A CgkQ1/OHu5qS3wGWxwCfbEfiA/J72K5Ugyj60hWEHN6PMbUAniPZi5g/R9akpfDF w8QeApYiNL7i =WjLA -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [email protected] http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
