Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2008 02:03:19 schrieb Pavel Roskin: > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 23:04 +0100, Dave wrote: > > Stefanik Gábor wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> 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" > > > > > > This appears to be a Wavelan 2 / Orinoco card. Maybe try adding your > > > device IDs to the Orinoco driver. > > > > According to > > <http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/drivers-for-Puppy-1/lucent-agere_README>, > > this is a Hermes II based card, which is not supported by the orinoco > > driver. So far I had gathered already from the pages linked in my last post. Nevertheless I gave it a shot on a 2.6.17 I had easily available and ended up with a message saying that the firmware is incompatible. > > There is a more recent version of the Agere driver available, which has > > been patched for 2.6 kernels. See > > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=304217> > > It's really a low hanging fruit. The big thing that was missing was > firmware download for Agere, but Dave implemented that. The remaining > work is mostly integration of the pieces together, adding the ID, > allowing initialization without firmware loaded, loading the right > firmware for the card. Ah, I never found that one. Also because the match that this indeed is a HermesII card could never be made for sure by myself and because that page is only about Hermes I. > I feel bad that I'm too busy with other things to pay enough attention > to older drivers, but we have linux-wireless list now, so I don't need > to be a bottleneck. Volunteers are welcome. Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2008 08:55:30 Holger Schurig wrote: > You mean I can convert the sta_h2.h file from the above link to > some binary file and let orinoco+Dave's patches load that > firmware to the card? > > I'm asking this because I also have a bunch of Hermes I and > Hermes II cards, which don't work with the Orinoco driver, but > with the "brought somewhat up to kernel 2.6" wlags_h2_718.tgz > driver from the above link. That driver works, but hurts the > eyes, and now has some problems with 2.6.25, e.g. at unloading > time. So this is the first indication that the wlags_h2_718 might work for the Hermes II card. Where can I download it without registration? Why wasn't the 7.22 version used as base for the patch? Best, Bernhard [cc my on relevent 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 -- 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
