On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [Greg gave me the hint to ask here. Please CC me on relevant replies. No need > to further include him, unless this should go up on the "DriverNeeded" page > later I presume.] > > Sitting here a pc card wireless land adapter. > id 0x0156, 0x0003, which probably makes it an Agere card. > cardctl info says: > "Wireless PC Card Model 0110" > > We bought it quite a while ago under the tradename Lancom Airlancer MC-11 > from Lancom Systems. > http://www.lancom-systems.de/AirLancer-MC-11b.117.0.html > > Background: We bought it because we thought it has a supported chipset based > on the old orinocco driver. The vendor announces "linux" supported, but this > turned out to be only a driver for Linux 2.4.x. > Some old stuff (with picture) can be found at: > ftp://ftp.lancom.de/AirLancer/AirLancer-11/AirLancer-MC-11 > this seems to be Free Software under GNU GPLv2 even. > > We could not get it to work with 2.6 and searching the web gave us only > reports that it does not work with kernel 2.6.x. > See http://questier.com/howto.html#Proxim > (the "local copy" links might haver newer source code) > > I've grepped the kernel sources (2.6.24) to try to find the id in a driver > or the source code comment "Agere" to see if source code was taken in from > the 2.4. driver. To no prevail. > Even pages like > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11b.html > do not help me. > > So I cannot really say: is there a driver which should work with this card in > Linux 2.6.x and just missed the manufacturer id to recognise it? > Where did the old Free Software code go? Was it never ported to 2.6? > > Thanks, > Bernhard > [Please CC me on relevant replies.] > > -- > Managing Director - Owner: www.intevation.net (Free Software Company) > Germany Coordinator: fsfeurope.org. Coordinator: www.Kolab-Konsortium.com. > Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998 > Geschäftsführer Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner > This appears to be a Wavelan 2 / Orinoco card. Maybe try adding your device IDs to the Orinoco driver. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
