Hi all,
Used to work with SuSE all the time, but now I have seen the light and
trying to get Debian to work on my Toshiba Portege 3020CT "roadwarrior"
:-) My wireless NIC is a LevelOne WPC-0100. There is a known issue in
SuSE where the card is falsely recognized as an Orinoco, but this
website claims it should be wvlan: http://www.prl.dk/linux/
I added a line to config in /etc/pcmcia looking like this :
card "Digital Data Communications"
manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
bind "wvlan_cs"
and edited wireless.opts to look like this :
# Lucent Wavelan IEEE (+ Orinoco, RoamAbout and ELSA)
# Note : wvlan_cs driver only, and version 1.0.4+ for encryption support
*,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:02:2D:*|*,*,*,00:01:24:*)
INFO="Wavelan IEEE example (Lucent default settings)"
ESSID="default"
MODE="Managed"
RATE="auto"
# KEY="s:secu1"
# To set all four keys, use :
# KEY="s:secu1 [1] key s:secu2 [2] key s:secu3 [3] key s:secu4 [4] key
[1]"
# For the RG 1000 Residential Gateway: The ESSID is the identifier on
# the unit, and the default key is the last 5 digits of the same.
# ESSID="084d70"
# KEY="s:84d70"
;;
where the 00:01:24 is the start of my WPC-0100 MAC address.
The output of dump_cis looks like this:
Socket 1:
dev_info
NULL 0ns, 512b
attr_dev_info
SRAM 500ns, 1kb
vers_1 5.0, "Digital Data Communications", "WPC-0100", "Version 00.00",
""
manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
funcid network_adapter
lan_technology wireless
lan_speed 1 mb/sec
lan_speed 2 mb/sec
lan_speed 5 mb/sec
lan_speed 11 mb/sec
lan_media 2.4_GHz
lan_node_id 00 01 24 f2 a1 e2
lan_connector Closed connector standard
config base 0x03e0 mask 0x0001 last_index 0x01
cftable_entry 0x01 [default]
Vcc Vnom 3300mV Vmin 3V Vmax 3600mV Iavg 300mA
Ipeak 300mA Idown 10mA
io 0x0000-0x003f [lines=6] [16bit]
irq mask 0xffff [level] [pulse]
Problem is that when I insert the card I get a lot of error messages and
it takes a looong time before the card is recognized and initialized.
Looks like a time-out problem. I have following questions:
- Anyone can confirm that I need the wvlan_cis driver and not wavelan_cis ?
- Did I forget something, any thoughts ?
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See you on the bitstream, Alain
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Alain Geenrits
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 13942850
