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 -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
