On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:16:22AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:50:37PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>>> I am trying to get a SparkLAN WCFM-100 Compact Flash wireless card
>>> working with wpa on a system running -current that is about  
>>> equivalent
>>> to 4.4. I tried it on both an i386 laptop and on a zaurus system and 
>>> I
>>> get the same error on both when I try to enable wpa. The line from my
>>> dmesg is as follows:
>>>
>>> malo0 at pcmcia1 function 0 "Marvell, 802.11 CF, ID: 04" port  
>>> 0xa000/128
>>> malo0: address 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>>>
>>> When I try to enable wpa, I get the message:
>>>
>>> ifconfig: SIOCS80211WPAPARMS: Operation not supported by device
>>>
>>> From the current malo(4) man page and the commit logs, wpa should be
>>> supported on malo(4) cards and I confirmed that it works fine with a
>>> Netgear WG511v2 along with wpa. Is there anything I can do to fix  
>>> this?
>>> Thank you.
>>
>> pcmcia malo or cmalo as the driver calls itself internally, is quite
>> different to pci/cardbus based malo.
>>
>> Currently cmalo is setup for hardware based WEP, it will need
>> to be changed a bit to support WPA.
>
> That makes sense. I am looking forward to eventually being able to use  
> my zaurus on wpa networks. Is there value in adding that the SparkLAN  
> WCFM-100 is supported in the malo(4) man page? Thank you for your  
> response.
>
> Bryan

Sure, I just added it to the man page.

thanks
Jonathan

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