Brooks Davis wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:07:43PM -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > A search of the archives revealed that PCI adapters for orinoco cards
> > don't work yet. So I guess there's no hope of getting the MiniPCI card
> > working either?
>
> Actually, that should be a different problem. The Orinoco PCI adaptors
> don't work because they are PCI-CardBus bridges and have interrupt
> routing issues. (Warner said today that someone waved money at him to
> fix that so it should happen.) On the other hand, there are other PCI
> adaptors for other cards that work with wi that use an adaptor that
> presents a PCI bus interface to a PCCard. I would expect the MiniPCI
> cards will do something like that since it would be pretty stupid to do
> it the other way given the rather minimal available realestate on a
> MiniPCI card. It's probably just a matter of adding the right entry to
> the wi_pci_probe function in if_wi.c. PCI support for this was one of
> the first things merged after the 4.3 code freeze was lifted.
Ah, I installed 4.3-R. I'll try updating my sources.
-Brandon
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